Lessons from Being a Product Owner with AI as My Developer

Coaching someone on how to drive isn't the same as holding the steering wheel.

I've spent decades as an Agile coach, developer and Scrum Master, working alongside product owners. I never actually held the role until now. As a one-person training and consulting business, I use Claude and other AI tools to do much of the work, and I'm building my own training programs. That makes me the Product Owner and the AI my developer. I don't need a team of agents, but I can now feel firsthand what POs have described to me for years. Here's what I learned, in five posts.

The series

• Part 1: The Feature Factory Has a Population of One

• Part 2: You Can't Outsource the Deciding (coming soon)

• Part 3: When the Wall Is the Teacher (coming soon)

• Part 4: Show Me, Don't Tell Me (coming soon)

• Part 5: The Team You Didn't Know You Had (coming soon)

• Wrap-up: What I'd Ask a Product Owner Now (coming soon)