The Product Owner participates in Scrum events

The Product Owner must participate in the Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.

At the Sprint Planning meeting, the Product Owner collaborates and negotiates with the Developers to decide on what will be carried out during the current Sprint. That is, based on the order of items defined by the Product Owner and the work capacity of the Developers, they decide together how many items they plan to implement during the Sprint, beginning with the item with the highest order, and what the Sprint Goal will be that will guide the Developers in their work of implementing the selected items.

Also, during the Sprint Planning meeting, as the Developers partially plan how they will implement the selected items (usually by breaking them down into tasks), a number of questions may arise about the work to be carried out. Thus, it is important that the Product Owner, if not present for this part of the meeting, is at least available and accessible to clarify any doubts.

At the Sprint Review meeting, the Product Owner and the Developers seek feedback from the customers and the other stakeholders on the Increment or Increments that were implemented during the Sprint. This feedback will serve as raw material for the Product Owner to decide on what will be done in future Sprints, feeding back into the Product Backlog. The interaction with the customers and other stakeholders during the Sprint Review results from the collaboration between them, the Product Owner and the Developers, and its format varies from Scrum Team to Scrum Team.

At the Sprint Retrospective meeting, the Scrum Team members seek to identify points for improvement in their way of working and outline respective action plans to be put into practice in the next Sprint. As a member of the Scrum Team, the Product Owner is an integral part of this meeting.