Product Ownership

The Product Owner fills the gaps that Project Management Offices leave. These include:

• Product Vision
• Product Release Plan
• Iterative Priorisation

This means in a classical PMO-steered project, it will be left up to the product team, even worse, often the developers to taggle above key deliverables. What comes out of it will be a near-quasimodal product, where it is clearly visible that there has been no vision how the product should be like, no plan how, when and what to deliver to the customer, let alone priorisation of high value items, valuable features for the customer and at the same time being low-cost features.

Classic project management offices are reliable in such a way that they almost never fail delivering quasimodal products where nobody knows or owns a vision, a delivery plan and what inherent value the product should have and emit to customer and the organisation.