What's up awesome people! Welcome back to my channel. Joshua Partogi here. I hope
you are staying safe and healthy at this moment. I know there is a global
turbulence at this moment but I believe amidst today's global turbulence, new
opportunities will arise. So that's why I believe it's very important for all of
us to stay positive and support each other to go through these moments. In
today's video I'm gonna be talking about the differences between Scrum Master and
Product Owner. The reason why I want to talk about this topic is because a lot
of people have been asking me about the differences between the two roles. So if
you're also interested to know about the differences between Scrum Master and
Product Owner, don't go anywhere stay on this video.
In the past I've made a video about the differences between Project Manager and
Scrum Master and also a video about the differences between Project Manager and
Product Owner, so I think it would be fair to also make a video that compares
about the differences between Scrum Master and Product Owner role.
Many people who also attended my Professional Scrum Master (PSM) and
Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) classes asked me whether they should
make a career as a Scrum Master or Product Owner.
So hopefully today's video will help those of you who are deciding whether
you want to make a career as a Scrum Master or a Product Owner. To know the
high-level differences between Scrum Master and Product Owner role let's
summarise Scrum guide and see what does Scrum guide has to say about the Scrum Master
and Product Owner role. To summarise Scrum guide, the Scrum
Master is a coach, a mentor, a facilitator, a teacher, and also a servant leader. I've
made a video on when does the Scrum Master use the coaching, teaching,
facilitation, mentoring and servant leadership stance, if you haven't already
watched that video click the link up here to watch the video. On the
other hand the Product Owner is an entrepreneur, a value maximizer and a
product vision holder. The Scrum Master is focused on and accountable for the
whole organisation agility and also Scrum effectiveness inside the
organization. The Product Owner is focused on and accountable for ensuring
that the product has maximum value in the market. Now that we know the main
focus of a Product Owner and a Scrum Master and how their main focus is
totally different, let's talk about how do they collaborate together inside the
organisation to achieve the organisation overarching goal. The Product Owner is
responsible to maximise the value of the product. The Product Owner does this by
looking at opportunities and trends in the market and even has an eye for the
competition. But most importantly the Product Owner needs to talk to the
customers. The Scrum Master on the other hand focuses on making changes inside
the organisation and enabling the organisation to improve its agility in
delivering value continuously. So you can say the Product Owner focuses on looking
outwards towards the customers and the market while the Scrum Master focus
on looking inwards towards the people inside the organisation. The agility of
the organisation that the Scrum Master develops will boost the Product Owner's
capability to capture opportunities in the market responsively. The Product
Owner and the Scrum Master need to have synergy and respect each other's role.
That's why these two roles should not be held by the same person. When one person
is playing both the Scrum Master and the Product Owner role
there will be lack of focus and also imbalance. As a human being we all have
our personal preferences and also our personal bias, so when we're playing both
the Scrum Master and the Product Owner role we will get pulled to one role and
have less focus on the other role. The risk is we might miss opportunity in
optimising the value of the product or optimising the agility of the
organization. Therefore the organisation may not reach their goal as agile as
they should be. When one person is playing both the Scrum Master and the
Product Owner role what I have seen on the field is there is a tendency to neglect
the Definition of "Done" and also the team member'ss happiness. The Definition of "Done"
is a very important aspect of Scrum, I've already made a video about the
Definition of "Done", if you haven't already watched it click the link up
here to watch the video. Now that you know the main focus of Product Owner and
Scrum Master, what are the skills required to be an awesome Scrum Master
or to be an awesome Product Owner? Let's talk about it. To be an awesome Scrum
Master you need coaching skill, facilitation skill, teaching skill,
knowledge in behavioural science, organization change management, and also
in Scrum and agile software development practices. Beyond Agile and Scrum
training, there are a lot of trainings in the market that will teach you about
professional coaching and professional facilitation. If you want to deepen your
understanding about professional coaching and professional facilitation, I
suggest you search on the internet for those trainings. To be an awesome Product
Owner you need product management skill, data analytic skill, user experience
skill, entrepreneurship skill and also skills in sales and marketing.
So that is all from me today folks! Thanks for watching today's video.
I hope you found some insights about the differences between Scrum Master and
Product Owner role after watching today's video. And for those of you who
are on the crossroads to choose whether you want to make a career as a Scrum
Master or Product Owner, hopefully today's video helps you to choose and
decide. If you liked today's video, as usual don't forget to smash that like
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my video in the future. Stay safe and stay healthy. See you until my next video.