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Product Owner Characteristics

Product Owner Characteristics

Domain expertise
Understands business needs
Has a working understanding of the process & technical architecture
Knows the right shareholders to engage

Trusted/empowered by business leadership
Empowered to make decisions independently
Performs necessary due diligence and analysis
Knows when to escalate

Collaborative leadership style
Works with others to collect input and synthesize

Availability
Available to the team
Responds quickly to questions
Engages in meaningful manner

Product Ownerowns definition and prioritization of the work backlog (scrum team input)

Product Ownerdecides whether the teams output is ready to be released to production (scrum team output)