Top Product Owner Interview Questions & Answers
Product Owner is a misunderstood job in many organizations, yet there’s a soaring demand year after year.
If you’re keen on becoming a Product Owner, then here’s an interview prep guide containing the product owner question and answers that will help you become more confident.
Here’s a list of 30 beginners, intermediate, and advanced questions that will ensure that you are on the right track.
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1. What’s the difference between Agile and Scrum? Are they the same?
Agile manifesto consists of values and principles to develop software iteratively and incrementally. Scrum is a framework that consists of accountabilities, artifacts, and events that helps in creating and sustaining complex products. Scrum is one of the foundations for agility. In general, we call Agile a mindset, and Scrum is a framework that helps adopt an agile mindset.
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2. What are the responsibilities of a Product Owner?
The responsibilities of a Product Owner –
- Creating and owning the Product Vision
- Managing the Product Backlog
- Defining the Sprint Objective
- Manage budget, scope, releases, and stakeholders of the Product
- Review product progress
- Being available to the team
- Effective communication to the stakeholders of the Product
- Collaborating with the scrum team for the Product Backlog Refinement
- Measuring the value of the Product (maybe using EBM)
- Product roadmap
- Product marketing and sales
- Product operations
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3. Is Product Owner and Product Managers different?
Product Owners and Product Managers are different. Here’s how –
A Product Owner is a key individual responsible for delivering superior quality products to the end-users within the deadline. The product owner is tasked with optimizing the business value of a product by creating and maintaining the product backlog.
A Product Manager is an individual who identifies the customer needs and the business objectives that a product will fulfill. They envision the product roadmap and the way to achieve it.
Product Managers lead a cross-functional team that works on the product and makes necessary improvements.
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