Monica Yap recently released on AgileIQ.org two articles of a series of six called Product Owner Anti-Patterns. She explains how the team and the project can suffer from an ineffective Product Owner role, which can ultimately lead to project failure.

You can find the first two articles here

• The absent product owner
• The Churning Backlog

The rest of the articles will be

• Copy The Last One
• The Waffling Definition of Done
• No Single Product Owner
• Not Enough Stakeholders

I hope they will be available soon. I think anyone who has been working for some time on agile projects can recognize some of these symptoms. Hopefully, Monica’s insights will help you figure things out.