Business Owner | Definition of Business Owner by Scrum Dictionary

A prioritized list of Deliverable Results that a Business Owner hopes to deliver to Stakeholders. The Stakeholders and Business Owner maintain the Results Backlog by adding new Deliverables and prioritizing/re-prioritizing.

The organization the Team belongs to, or works for. The Business Organization provides services the Team needs in order to exist, such as Human Resources, Logistics, Facilities, Contracting, Training, and…

The collection of Responsibilities and Accountabilities that sit between the Stakeholders and the Developers; these responsibilities range from creating a strategic vision to delivery management to determining what work will…

A Product Ownership role that represents a person who is accountable to the Business Organization for maximizing the overall value of Deliverable Results, which could represent one, or many, Products. The Business Owner owns the Results Backlog, and is also called the Business’s Product Owner.

Examples

The Team’s Product Owner is accountable to the Business Owner, and the Business Owner is often accountable to the Stakeholders and others above him.

If the Product Owner doesn’t have a Business Owner to determine which things are important, and there are multiple Stakeholders holding the Product Owner to account for different things, then the Product Owner must ‘make the call’ and determine what is a Chore, and what is a Capability.

We expect the Clients to work with the Business Owners to determine which Results should be delivered, and the Business Owner represents the Client’s interests to the Organization and its Scrum Teams.