Working as a Technical Product Owner

This thesis aims at documenting the responsibilities and growth progress during a period of 8 weeks of a technical product owner at Mascus Ritchie Bros Finland Oy. The thesis focusses on describing at a detail level the daily tasks and explaining their impact on the professional development of the author. Being a technical product owner, the author serves as a liaison between business stakeholders and engineering team. By effectively leveraging communication skill in daily situations, owning the product backlog, and implementing core agile methodologies, a technical product owner helps maximize the value of the product. The process of acquiring these essential skills were recorded in this thesis based on diary entries, and self reflection is described in weekly analysis. Diary entries were collected from 25th April 2022 to 17th June 2022. Weekly evaluation aims at analyzing incidents and new knowledge learnt during the week. This thesis can be beneficial for understanding the responsibilities, essential skills and knowledge of a product owner or technical product owner.