The product owner is a critical part of Scrum, which is an Agile methodology of software development. Adopting the Scrum approach ensures that products can be developed incrementally and launched in production faster. So, the product owner is a part of the scrum team and collaborates with all the other members of the entire product team. Contrary to what many people think, the product owner is not the boss of the whole team. They are responsible for specific tasks which they can either delegate to others or accomplish themselves. But either way, the product owner remains accountable.