Delegation Canvas Example:
Product Owner

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1. Primary Driver / Purpose

“We need someone to focus on making our appliances valuable to both the user and the company.”

2. Key Responsibilities

• have the development team build features that users actually need
• align product features with company strategy
• release planning

3. Dependencies

• hardware and software development (builds features)
• sales team (needs to sell the software to customers)
• strategy team (provides a strategy board which is updated at least quarterly)
• architecture circle (provides guidelines and consulting about software and hardware architecture)

4. External Constraints

• CEO has input on as well a right to veto all product decisions
• software development team has long lead times because they work for multiple projects
• high turnover in this position requires solid documentation of everything that might be relevant to a successor

5. Key Challenges

• product carries a lot of technical debt
• hardware development makes user testing challenging

6. Key Deliverables

• feature roadmap for the next 12 months
• detailed user stories and wireframes covering at least 2 months
• documentation of user tests
• monthly report to with CEO about new stories and updates to roadmap
• monthly report on selected pilot customers

7. Competencies, qualities and skills

• good grasp of agile product management and agile software development
• at least 2 years of experience as product manager or business analyst

8. Key Resources

• pilot customers willing to use prototypes and test versions
• strategy board

10. Key Metrics

• net promoter score (customers)
• pilot customer satisfaction survey

11. Monitoring and Evaluation

• peer review every 3 months, with members of hardware team, software team, sales team and CEO

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