Working With Product Owners

Summary

The BA and Product Owner roles overlap significantly — in companies with both, a healthy relationship means clear division of who owns final prioritization decisions versus who owns requirement detail and clarity.

• 1Clarify (in a hypothetical scenario) exactly where BA responsibilities end and Product Owner responsibilities begin.
• 2Learn why unclear role boundaries between these two positions cause real friction on teams.
• 3Practice a scenario where you'd need to defer a prioritization decision to the Product Owner.