agile - Should a Product Owner look after more than one product? -

in scrum or agile team advisable product owner involved in more 1 product? have product owner enterprise system , "sub" product owners components of system? i.e. in retailer have po enterprise system drives "sub" po's retail, supply chain , manufacturing?

be interested in how others deal scrum teams in enterprise environment many stakeholders in functional silos.

in scrum or agile team advisable product owner involved in more 1 product? 

first of have understand won't have objective answer in scrum. have inspect , adapt. in scrum guide (written inventors of scrum) mentioned po should not handle more 2 products mention po succeed (s)he has take full responsibility of product, , organisation has respect pos decision.the po "pig" of product backlog, 1 or 2 or more products, if po , stakeholders can handle try it, , inspect , adapt. , there various factors how complex products are, , how speacialised product owner in them , how bandwidth po has po duties more 1 product. please take of them consideration before trying it.

is have product owner enterprise system , "sub" product owners components of system? i.e. in retailer have po enterprise system drives "sub" po's retail, supply chain , manufacturing? 

again have try in organisation know if "good". follow right scrum guidelines when appointing pos or sub pos. tried in organisation , worked wonders! had chief po, , several other pos may call sub pos prefer keeping on same level avoid command , control behavior when misused can ruin project. chief pos job make sure pos successfull in do, , pos out when needed. appointing pos done chief po along chief sm or sm. if may digress little, same structure followed sms. chief sms job sms succeed @ doing job, example if sm cannot resolve impediment or have chief sm come in picture resolve it.

be interested in how others deal scrum teams in enterprise environment many stakeholders in functional silos. 

like mentioned above. had chief po, , several other pos in our enterprise environment. there steering committee included stakeholders. each po had own product backlog manage. had 2 week sprints. twice month had meeting called 'steering committee meeting" stakeholders , chief po , pos met, , steered enterprise product in right direction, , each of pos translated work in scrum terms (potentially shippable user stories) each of products, chief po had crucial role of educating , protecting pos stakeholders , members had little knowledge of scrum framework. protected pos being hijacked. each po had own scrum team sm , team members. suggest have chief po agile coach hold high in organisation. have pos collocated, helps in resolving cross team dependencies , issues.

note: 1 thing had not worked 2 pos 1 team 1 product backlog, there many conflicts between pos!

hope helps.