Initiative Leader

Short Tip:  The responsible for the product development management in more predictive environments.

What is it?

The Initiative Leader is the professional that holds two fundamental skills.

The first is the technical aspect of project or initiative management. In other words, this individual has the technical knowledge to create a schedule, budget, WBS, or other project management artifacts required in the hybrid model.

The second is the ability to understand the business requirements and present the priorities under the perspective of user value. In this sense, it is close to what the Scrum Guide describes as the Product Owner.

Duties

The Initiative Leader has three main duties:

• Maximize the value of the product to be built;
• Keep the Product Backlog updated, ordered and clearly communicated to the development team;
• Manage the various aspects of the initiative, particularly scope, time and cost.