A lot of companies have added a product owner title, which includes with the same responsibilities we discussed in the previous chapter on this topic. They see this as an entry-level role preceding that of product manager. As I explained earlier, when you think of a product manager as looking at only strategy and of a product owner only looking at tactical, you miss the connection between the vision and the day-to-day work. This gets you into the aforementioned danger of having the product person be too tactical. When you try to advance on the career ladder, the product owner will not have the
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