Handling product owners and steering committees

Depending on your role, you will need to handle product owners and related entities such as steering committees. Maybe you are a product owner yourself. In any case, as with C-level stakeholders, there are certain communication rules that should be respected.

For product owners, one of the most important aspects of a project is to know who is responsible for what. In the end, tasks can only be efficiently fulfilled if they are dispatched to the right person. In a monolithic setup, the roles and responsibilities may be much easier to see than in a distributed organization. Obviously, we need to have a way of bringing in transparency.

One way of being more transparent in a micro frontend solution is to leverage techniques such as a RACI matrix. Each development team assigns one person who is responsible for filling in and maintaining the RACI matrix.

Figure 12.2 – The RACI model to assign each role one...