Domain 2 of 5

Product Owner Core Competencies

Organisational designs that change how the accountability is carried out, working with one product owner across several scrum teams, gathering insight from stakeholders, and holding authority over the product backlog while working collaboratively.

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Practice questions
Concepts in this domain
01The Product Owner accountabilityOne person, accountable for maximising the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team, and for effective Product Backlog management.02The product owner in organisational contextThe accountability is fixed, but the organisation around it is not. How reporting lines, funding models and team counts change what a product owner can actually decide.03Stakeholders and collaborationHow stakeholders participate in Scrum, where their input enters, and where the Product Owner's decision stands.
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A product owner joins a company where budgets are allocated per project, scope and dates are agreed with the sponsor before a team is formed, and the team is disbanded at the end. Which description of the accountability in this design is accurate?

  • AThe accountability is smaller here, because the ordering decision has already been made by the sponsor.
  • BScrum cannot be used in this design, so the role becomes a business analyst role.
  • CThe accountability is unchanged, and the practical work shifts toward ordering by value within the agreed scope and making visible what the fixed scope is displacing.
  • DThe product owner should refuse the fixed scope until the sponsor changes the funding model.
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