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The Three Qualities That Separate Great Product Owners From Those Who Just Drop Tickets | Mukhtar Kadiri
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Mukhtar Kadiri: The Three Qualities That Separate Great Product Owners From Those Who Just Drop Tickets The Great Product Owner: Decisive, Versatile, and Credible at Every Level Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes . "This person could hold his own at any level of the organization — with executives, with engineering leadership, and with the team." - Mukhtar Kadiri Mukhtar describes the best product owner he ever worked with through three distinct qualities. First, this person could operate at any level — equally comfortable in a strategic conversation with executives and in a tactical session with the engineering team. Second, they had vast cross-functional knowledge. They weren't a specialist in any one domain, but they could hold intelligent, credible conversations with marketing, go-to-market, customer success, and engineering alike. And third — perhaps most critically — they were decisive. In ambiguous environments where nobody has done this before, teams need someone who will pick a direction and say "let's find out," even if the decision might be wrong. That decisiveness, combined with the ability to course-correct early, is what separates great product owners from those who leave teams waiting for direction that never comes. Self-reflection Question: Which of these three qualities — operating at any level, cross-functional credibility, or decisiveness — is strongest in your product owner, and which one needs the most development? The Bad Product Owner: Not Owning the Backlog Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website…