The Product Owner's Role in Team Building

Self-organising, self-managing teams are at the heart of Scrum. Everyone knows that. Most people are clear that, as an agile coach, the Scrum Master bears the main responsibility for growing the team.

Less understood is the idea that everyone in a Scrum team has a role in team building if it is to be successful. Geoff Watts has written about how collaborative behaviour is a skill that has to be acquired individually by members of the development team.

But what about the product owner—what can she contribute?

Let’s segue into the world of team sports for clues to an answer. Jose Mourinho is possibly the most successful club coach currently in world soccer.

He has been a head coach since only 2002, and has spent two of the intervening years on gardening leave, yet his teams have already won an astonishing 24 titles in four different countries: Portugal, England, Italy and Spain. He has coached two sides, Porto and Inter Milan, to be European Champions.

What is it that he knows about team building that we don’t?

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