In an Agile shop, the product owner constructs work items with the capabilities and past performance of the team in mind. Their knowledge of the team can have a profound impact on how the product owner writes the work items, and where they place them in the backlog. As the product owner’s knowledge of the team grows, their ability to write consistently sized work items that the team can easily estimate and execute becomes better and better. Their performance becomes stable, which means it’s predictable.
