20 Product Owner Interview Questions and Answers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- Here are some of the common and most important questions you should ask prospective product owners. We will divide the questions into segments:
Segment 1: Product Owner Role
These questions are meant to get a grasp of the candidate's understanding of the job responsibilities.
1. What do you expect from this job as a product owner?
The question is supposed to be an opening question that lets the candidate provide an overview of their exposure. It would tell you how prepared the candidate is for the interview and how much of an expert they are in their field.
Each answer to this question will be different depending on the industry, company, and products. However, there are some commonalities you should look for. A few keywords you should be looking for include sprint planning, sprint retrospective, grooming, and sprint review. If the candidate mentions these activities, you know they have the relevant knowledge and experience.
2. Do you think it's a good idea to have one person performing both the Scrum Product Owner role and the Scrum Master role?
It’s essential to get an idea of how well the candidate understands the entire product development process. This question is the best way to figure out how well the candidate understands their role compared to other roles.
Unless the candidate has a really good explanation, the answer should be "no". Scrum masters and product owners have different responsibilities, and mixing them will always have a negative impact on the development process. The Scrum Master acts as a mediator between the product owner and the development team. Therefore, if the same person plays both roles, a conflict of interest would arise.
3. Do you have experience working with a Scrum framework?
Every product owner needs to have a basic understanding of the Scrum framework. The answer to this question will give you an idea of how well the candidate understands the framework. Their knowledge of the framework can be a baseline on what you can expect from the product owner.
Answering the question would be different for every product owner, but a few elements should remain the same. For example, Scrum is an incremental way of providing value to the end-user in a timely manner. The answer should revolve around this particular statement.
Furthermore, if the product owner describes the origin of the framework, that’s even better. The candidate should also mention the three fundamental roles that come along with it. To be more specific, they should understand the product owner, Scrum team, and the Scrum Master role.
4. What other product discovery frameworks have you worked with?
Scrum is the most widely used Agile software development framework, but that doesn't mean it is the best model for every situation.
If the potential product owner has experience with Kanban or Waterfall, for example, that's going to help them make a judgment of the best approach to take in each circumstance.
Segment 2: Engagement with External Stakeholders
The following questions help the hiring managers to understand the level of experience that candidates have in conducting interviews and getting feedback from users.
5. Who do you consider to be the most important product stakeholder?
One of the most important things to establish is whether the product owner understands whom they’re targeting. Their job requires them to understand the external stakeholders and develop the product accordingly.
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Thanks. Great overview! Very helpful.
Excellent explanation!!!
This is High Quality content
Thanks!
Lots of good content, thanks!
I just have one strong reservation: I would say that the question about backlog prioritization can have a lot of correct answers that are more to the point than just knowing one particular tool like MoSCoW (e.g., strategic themes, urgency/importance, validated assumptions in product discovery, cost of delay, business vs. customer value).
Solid content, I like the "key takeaway" rather than robotic examples that may not apply
If there is a product owner who wants to use the scrum framework in their product development, but there is no scrum master, the product owner would need to be responsible for making sure that his scrum team follows Scrum. The product owners main job is to create the most value from their scrum team. This includes needing to implement scrum into a team
Let me quote a line from the SCRUM guide: "While implementing only parts of Scrum is possible, the result is not Scrum." Yes, you can use parts of the framework at your convenience, but you're not doing SCRUM, you're doing something else. And that something else IMO should not be called SCRUM because it would be misleading. When you're communicating it to an external party, they may make some assumptions based on a faulty description of your org.
@@YamilGonzales m8 you are wrong actually. it is a framework you do not have to follow 100%. maybe the company doesn't have budget or they lost an employee. just shush.
Great information, watching this before my PO interview tomorrow, cheers!
Very comprehensive rehearsal. Thank you for sharing.
Great video, well articulated 👍👍
Fantastic stuff Joshua, recently I attended an Interview, you're not gonna believe, I have got at least a question from almost all segments you mentioned.
guess what? I watched this video to do my first PO interview, probably the interviewer watched this same video to prepare for me. lol. you can just imagine how it went.
Did u get the job?
excellent stuff... well presented
Great video!
Excellent video 👏👏
Great content and tips. Thanks! Please can anyone explain how does a Proxy Product Owner role work with the PO role and the Scrum team in general? I have a Proxy Product owner role interview which is going to be a written scenario based interview. Any tips or explanations will greatly help.
Great 👍 Thank you
Thank you
Are all stakeholders really equally important or this is just in product management as the stakeholder mapping matrix’s of influence and interest sorts of categorize SH into importance ranking.
Really helpful video. Thank you so much!
Thanks.
You should write the answers on the screen
I have more than 12+ years of experience in data engineering, data science, and architecture, with significant expertise in the payment domain. I am currently working partialy as a product owner.
I am contemplating a transition to a full-time product owner role in my career, leveraging my technical skills and domain knowledge.
Now Im getting interest in domain and move out to become more of techno functional roles. I felt product owner is the best option.
Though current role of partial product owner is only of few months as of now. considering
Good to know about how well you are making progress in your new role! I am also trying to move to PO role after 12 years of experience as QA in Banking payments domain. What are the keys things one should consider moving to PO role in Banking. Soon will have an interview for the same :)
4:52 Should be "product delivery" or "product development", I presume.
Do you know any companies that take juniors? As a product owner? So hard to get an interview 😪
Because PO role is meant to understand the project from a very high level and tone it down for development and collaborate with Business, Clients, and other Stakeholders. BA would be more apt for juniors. it is more of a stepping stone towards PO and PM roles.
@@sanketkulkarni696 absolutely correct.
What's a PSH!?
What is PSH you mentioned?
Product stakeholders
please use a better mic, the sound is not so good
I can’t help but wonder where are you from? I’ve never heard anyone talk with this accent. It is so hard to listen. Great information though, thank you.
He's definitely from North America, most likely the US. This is a very general accent here.
I came here for knowledge and found it. If anyone doesn't like the accent, they can go search for knowledge elsewhere, or pay a translator to translate to their local accent or mute the video and follow the closed captions. Stop whining on a top class content because everyone doesn't speak like people around your village
Buy a microphone please
Questions are nice, answeres are not.
1/10 bad delivery
White noise and echo too much I can't listen to this
Awww cry about it
Sorry, but your accent sounds too artificial!
Where are you people from? That is a generic American accent. I hear this "accent" every day.
@@stacyb6489 In which remote village do you live?
This guy needs to get some speech training! Firstly it’s the accent that is annoying and secondly it’s not clear what he is saying and lastly, please leave behind your „cool way of talking“ soon after you graduate high school! You are giving professional information here. I’m sorry, But I am hugely disappointed ☹️
Best wishes from Germany,
V
Accent? He’s likely from the U.S. and being clear and concise in American English. Were you looking for someone with a a European accent?
That's an American accent bro, it's just a matter of getting used to certain accent to understand, listen to it couple of times with headphones, you will be good. It's fantastic stuff and he articulated it well.
Try to learn different things from people from different walks of life. Complaining not gonna take you anywhere in the life.
Try Google his name and company. Have fun.
Dude you are the equivalent of a person that is surrounded by a huge, beautiful forest, but is upset because of one tree you keep staring at lol.
How DARE you say someone's accent is annoying. Even if you thought it, it should NOT be shared out loud. To express this displays extreme ignorance and a total lack of professionalism. There are thousands of videos with people speaking with accents, INCLUDING INDIAN. How would you feel if someone said Indian accents are annoying?
Perhaps if you were less of a jerk, you would not attempt to marginalize what he stated by saying it was not clear. It was very clear to me. He wasn't trying to sound cool, but rather he didn't sound like an insufferable know-it-all using $100 polysyllabic words in an attempt to sound "professional." Professionalism is exactly what you failed to display in your dig at him. And if you didn't understand what he said, perhaps you aren't as intelligent as you THINK you are. People like you are beyond annoying.