Recruiting a Product Owner? Approach

I was a part of a panel where I was helping the team to find a suitable product owner.

My Team has asked me to help them find the best Product Owner for their product.

I was thinking if I ask the below questions, will I get the best PO for the project need?

Thought of asking the candidates to share with me a couple of stories related to the below areas.

a) Business Model Canvas: Please share with me, How you have used Business Model Canvas in your work? What are the key challenges you have encountered?

b) What are the key steps for customer value creation? Customer discovery steps have you used, and what was the outcome? Can you share some stories around this point?

c) Share your journey of forming a customer profile? And share with me the end results? Explain Personas, Usability, and Empathy mapping, and how you have used it? What challenges have you experienced? When do you consider these to be of no use?

d) Tell me some of the benefits customers have received from your products and services? How did you measure it?

e) What are the diverse driving forces for you to decide on customer products and services?

f) How did you apply for the Minimum Viable solution? Sketch it with a napkin? Take a couple of napkins and explain the thoughts you have used.

g) What does your team’s shared vision look like, please write it down on a napkin.

h) Explain the User story format? Explain?INVEST? DEEP? Explain the three C's of user stories? Explain the Storyboard technique? Share a few Acceptance Testing strategies you have used?

i) Explain the characteristics of the Product Backlog Iceberg??Explain Kano and?MOSCOW?techniques from your experience?

j) Explain the rationale for using the Fibonacci number during estimation?

k) Explain various slicing techniques? Give us a couple of examples? What is your Definition of Ready for your product features?

l) Explain how you have used Story Mapping in your project? Explain the Minimum Marketable Feature and how you have used it in your project?

m) What are the various Non-Functional requirements you have considered? What is a system quality card? How have you used it? What are the various?“-ilities”?

n) How do you calculate Business Value? How do you use BVM (Business Value Modeling) Techniques?

o) Explain to me how you have used gherkin language in your project?

p) Challenges in Collaborative exercise? Share with me a few key challenges? Explain to me a few key challenges to the driving specification workshop?

q) Explain to me the comprehensive testing strategy you have employed for your product?

r) Explain to me some scenarios where “before and after learning” about feature development? Where you have revised a couple of key assumptions (Things you have understood about your proposed solution after validating the problem through interacting with customers)

s) Key challenges you faced during a sprint review?meeting, share?with me some stories? How did you manage your technical debts and spikes?

t) Share with me some stories and actions where you have applied Inspect and Adapt approach? How have you applied the Build-Measure-Learn approach?

u) Share with me how you have applied the Design thinking approach to your current product solution development context?

v) What are the key metrics you have measured for your product??( One Metrics that Matters)

In the process, I am also planning to check the Attitude, Passion, curiosity to learn, etc. soft skills and domain expertise.

At the end he/she as a Product Owner need to take care of all these points?

Product Owner:

? Own the product on behalf of business owners

? Cares about the user needs and business goals

? Collaborate with the dev team and stakeholders

? Stakeholder vision while developing the product

Responsible for product success

? Able to see the big picture

? Accept or reject the work

? Responsible for ROI

? PO is a domain expert

? Demonstrated ability to understand, translate and communicate technical and complex ideas and situations to a wide variety of audiences including clients, coworkers, and management.

What do you think? Will I get the best PO?