# How Working as a Product Owner Helped Me Be a Better Engineer (and vice versa)

DevFeed: [How Working as a Product Owner Helped Me Be a Better Engineer (and vice versa)](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-working-as-a-product-owner-helped-me-be-a-better-engineer-and-vice-versa-27998.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tech.trivago.com/post/2020-08-19-howworkingasaproductownerhelpedmebeabett/>)

Author: Pejman Poh

Published: 2020-08-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Trivago](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/trivago.md>)

Topics: [Job](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/job.md>), [Learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/learning.md>), [Graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphs.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [data-pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-pipeline.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [graph](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graph.md>), [job](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/job.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [product-owner](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-owner.md>)

## AI overview

An engineer at trivago describes taking on a Product Owner role while remaining the sole engineer on a project. The experience involved stakeholder collaboration, KPI planning, design, and building a data pipeline that led to a price graph tested with more than 2 million people. The author explains how understanding user problems and broader company context improved their engineering practice.

## Source excerpt

Over the past few months, I was given the opportunity to try out the life of a Product Owner (PO), alongside retaining my responsibilities as an engineer. The life of a PO has always intrigued m...