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 tasks :

Creation of the Portfolio Backlog , in coordination with the Cluster System Engineer Group
Requirements management : Receiving inquiries / requirements for systems, applications & features, as well as working with the Stakeholders on the requirements
- Ensuring the DoR so that the Cluster System Engineer Group (CSEG) can evaluate and estimate it
- Coordination & refinement of systems, applications & features and distribution to the Team Backlogs.
- Assessment of systems, applications & features with regard to the business benefit
Prioritize systems, applications & features within the Portfolio Backlog, for example through an Upswing Gravity Field . The Portfolio Backlog is publicly available and transparent to all Stakeholders
Release management (planning, acceptance and release)
- Release planning: Planning the Systems, Applications & Features in sensible System Versions & Market Variants . Release planning is publicly available and transparent to all Stakeholders
- Optional: Feedback of the priority and, if necessary, the scheduling of Features to the Stakeholders
Optional, especially if the organization is not continuously agile: Information & Reporting: Display of progress and enable the overarching plans to be updated
Definition & maintenance of own processes and templates (self-organization)
- Portfolio Kanban Board
- NABC, Lightweight Business Case, …
- User Stories and Use Case templates

To work effectively, the group should maintain its own Improvement Backlog, conduct regular Syncs for coordination, as well as regular Retrospectives on its own working methods and processes.