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9 Potential Pitfalls for Product Managers as Product Owners

Product Owners are Product Managers

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Willem-Jan Ageling
Feb 18, 2024
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Many organizations have Product Managers and Product Owners. The Product Managers typically address the strategic part of the product while the Product Owners are responsible for the tactical part: to create and sustain the product.

This is an anti-pattern. It is undermining the actual importance of the Product Owner accountability in Scrum:

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