TY - GEN

T1 - Preface

AU - Kuhrmann, Marco

AU - Schneider, Kurt

AU - Pfahl, Dietmar

AU - Amasaki, Sousuke

AU - Ciolkowski, Marcus

AU - Hebig, Regina

AU - Tell, Paolo

AU - Klünder, Jil Ann-Christin

AU - Küpper, Steffen

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2018/11

Y1 - 2018/11

N2 - Product owners in the Scrum framework – respectively the on-site customer when applying eXtreme Programming – have an important role in the development process. They are responsible for the requirements and backlog deciding about the next steps within the development process. However, many companies face the difficulty of defining the tasks and the responsibilities of a product owner on their way towards an agile work environment. While literature addresses the tailoring of the product owner’s role in general, research does not particularly consider the specifics of this role in the context of a systems development as we find for example in the oil and gas industry. Consequently, the question arises whether there are any differences between these two areas. In order to answer this question, we investigated on the current state of characteristics and tasks of product owners at Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE). In this position paper, we present initial results based on an online survey with answers of ten active product owners within the technical software department of BHGE. The results indicate that current product owners at BHGE primarily act as a nexus between all ends. While technical tasks are performed scarcely, communication skills seem even more important for product owners in a system development organization. However, to obtain more reliable results additional research in this area is required.

AB - Product owners in the Scrum framework – respectively the on-site customer when applying eXtreme Programming – have an important role in the development process. They are responsible for the requirements and backlog deciding about the next steps within the development process. However, many companies face the difficulty of defining the tasks and the responsibilities of a product owner on their way towards an agile work environment. While literature addresses the tailoring of the product owner’s role in general, research does not particularly consider the specifics of this role in the context of a systems development as we find for example in the oil and gas industry. Consequently, the question arises whether there are any differences between these two areas. In order to answer this question, we investigated on the current state of characteristics and tasks of product owners at Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE). In this position paper, we present initial results based on an online survey with answers of ten active product owners within the technical software department of BHGE. The results indicate that current product owners at BHGE primarily act as a nexus between all ends. While technical tasks are performed scarcely, communication skills seem even more important for product owners in a system development organization. However, to obtain more reliable results additional research in this area is required.

KW - Agile software development

KW - Product owner

KW - Systems development

KW - Systems engineering

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 9783030036720

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

SP - V-VI

BT - Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 19th International Conference, PROFES 2018, Proceedings

A2 - Ciolkowski, Marcus

A2 - Hebig, Regina

A2 - Kuhrmann, Marco

A2 - Pfahl, Dietmar

A2 - Tell, Paolo

A2 - Amasaki, Sousuke

A2 - Küpper, Steffen

A2 - Schneider, Kurt

A2 - Klünder, Jil

T2 - 19th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2018

Y2 - 28 November 2018 through 30 November 2018

ER -