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To better appreciate the scope of product owner responsibilities, let’s look at a “day in the life” of a product owner across part of a product development effort (see Figure 9.6).
Figure 9.6. A day in the life of a product owner
During weeks 1 and 2 the product owner is engaged in both portfolio planning (see Chapter 16) and product planning (see Chapter 17). As part of portfolio planning, the product owner might work with the portfolio manager or the governance board to discuss portfolio expectations that could influence the new-product planning. Those discussions provide input to product planning, where the product owner, working with appropriate stakeholders and others, will perform the envisioning of the new product.