>I've never met a "Product Owner" that actually understands the product they are building...
This is sad. It's like a professional football player saying they never played for a coach who understood the objective of football. If that's truly the case, no amount of software development best practices or skill will save you from failure.
I have seen product owners who understand the product, and clearly those people exist, as there are successful products in the market. But if you've spent your career playing for the software equivalent of the Detroit Lions, I can see how the industry could appear pretty bleak.
This is sad. It's like a professional football player saying they never played for a coach who understood the objective of football. If that's truly the case, no amount of software development best practices or skill will save you from failure.
I have seen product owners who understand the product, and clearly those people exist, as there are successful products in the market. But if you've spent your career playing for the software equivalent of the Detroit Lions, I can see how the industry could appear pretty bleak.