The product owner is an agile anti pattern - John Le Drew

While business knowledge and domain expertise is useful and essential, is this only achievable with a 'single wringable neck'? What would happen if the whole team could be encouraged to take ownership of product direction?
This session looks at how we have often created dysfunctional relationships with our product owners through both the way we collaborate (or don't) with them and the language we use to talk about the role itself.

We will discuss questions like:
- What is actually the role of the product owner?
- Why do we discourage 'hero' developers but encourage 'hero' product owners?
- How do we know what the right thing to do is?
- Can the whole team engage in product ownership?