Market & Business

Applications and Market Variants

Applications and market versions are integrated, tested and approved products of the organization that can be sold in target markets to customers. They meet the requirements specified as a group from the Stakeholer Needs in the ” feature sets “. These are individually defined in the System Requirements & Functions as well as the Quality…

Users, Customers and Sales

These are the primary Stakeholders in product development at all levels (Organization , Cluster and Team ). At the Team level, the Application Teams in particular have close contact with Users, Customers and sales, as they give and evaluate the ultimate requirements for the products, systems and applications. Stakeholders are invited to the Review meetings…

Cluster Product Owner (CPO)

The Cluster Product Owner is part of the Team Product Owner Group (TPOG). They have the responsibility for the market and business side of the product development process at the Cluster and System level. (A general description of the product owner role can be found here.) The Cluster-Product-Owner, the Cluster System Engineer and the Cluster…

Cluster Product Owner Group (CPOG)

The Cluster Product Owner Group consists of the Cluster Product Owners of all Clusters in the Organization, plus the Portfolio Owner. It has the overall responsibility for market and business side of the product development process on the Portfolio at the organizational level. The Cluster Product Owner Group including the Portfolio Owner has the following…

Portfolio Backlog, Portfolio Cycle Backlog & Portfolio Kanban

The top level of the Backlogs of the P4 framework, the Portfolio and Organizational level , describes all Applications and market variants of the Systems and Products to be develped in the entire Organization. Each of these variants is described by a set of System Requirements (feature set). In this way, the Application, systems &…

Portfolio Owner (PFO)

The Portfolio Owner is the “Product Owner” of the Organization and has the overall responsibility for the Market and Business side of the product development on the Portfolio / Organizational level, together with the Cluster Product Owner Group (CPOG). (A general description of the Product Owner role can be found here.)   Together with the Portfolio…

System Requirements & Functions

Systems are described at the top level by System Requirements and Functions (features). Requirements only describe abilities or properties in the “problem area”, so they are still independent of concrete system solutions. The solution space is already limited by the Quality Attributes & Constraints . Interfaces to neighboring systems in the environment and their properties…

System Increment

System increments are partial or full integrations of system versions that are verified by internal or external tests, as well as by user and / or market tests. System increments are mostly created by the Application teams of the Cluster i.e. by integrating partial results of the different teams of a cluster (module and platform…

Team Product Owner Group (TPOG)

The Team Product Owner Group consists of all Team Product Owners of a Cluster and the Cluster Product Owner . At the Cluster and system level, it is responsible for the Market and Business side  of the product development process. The Team Product Owner Group has the following tasks: Creation of the Cluster Backlog ,…

Product Owner is responsible for Market & Business

The P4 framework divides its organizational and management structure of product development into three areas: Market and Business (see below) Organization, infrastructure and processes Technology and Architecture Market and Business The Product Owner roles at the various levels bear responsibility for the products and their markets. In doing so, they communicate with the Stakeholders in…