Agile Anti-Patterns: Scrum Role Anti-Patterns Part I

Product Owner Anti-Patterns

David Theil
10 min readOct 2, 2022

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Content:

  • What Roles are defined in Scrum?
  1. Proxy Product Owner
  2. Mushroom Product Management
  3. Part-time Product Owner
  4. Copy-Paste Product Owner
  5. Dominant Product Owner
  6. Backlog Administrator Product Owner

INFO: This article is part of the series on agile anti-patterns.
For more agile anti-patterns see the entire series.

Agile Anti-Pattern Series:
- General Agile Anti-Patterns
Scrum Anti-Patterns
- Daily Scrum/ Daily Standup Anti-Patterns
- Sprint Anti-Patterns Part I
- Sprint Anti-Patterns Part II
- Sprint Anti-Patterns Part III
- Backlog Anti-Patterns Part I
- Backlog-Anti-Patterns Part II
- Refinement-Anti-Patterns
- Sprint Review Anti Patterns Part I
- Sprint Review Anti Patterns Part II
- Sprint Review Anti Patterns Part III
- Retrospective Anti Patterns Part I
- Retrospective Anti Patterns Part II
- Retrospective Anti Patterns Part III
- Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns Part I
- Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns Part II
- Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns Part III
- Role Anti-Patterns Part I
- Role Anti-Patterns Part II
- Role Anti-Patterns Part III
- Role Anti-Patterns Part IV

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What Roles are defined in Scrum?

The Scrum Guide defines the three roles, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Developer or Development Team.

Scrum Team
The fundamental unit of Scrum is a small team of people, a Scrum…

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