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 , derived from the Portfolio Backlog , in coordination with the Team System Engineer Group (TSEG)
Requirements management: Receiving and gathering requirements for systems, applications & features, as well as working with the Stakeholders on the requirements
- Ensuring the DoR so that the Team System Engineer Group can analyze and estimate it
- Coordination & refinement of systems, applications & features and distribution to the Team Backlogs .
- Assessment of systems, applications & features with regard to business benefits, for example by using planning poker and relative “value points”.
Prioritize systems, applications & features within the Cluster Backlog , e.g. by using an Upswing gravity field . The Cluster Backlog is freely available and accessible to all stakeholders
Release management (planning, acceptance and release)
- Release planning: Planning the systems, applications & features in sensible system and variant versions. Release planning is publicly available and viewable for all stakeholders
- Optional: feedback of the priority and, if necessary, scheduling 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 and maintenance of own processes and templates (self-organization of the Team Product Owner Group)
- Cluster 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.