Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and the agile teams you have worked with?
- What drew you to the product owner role?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Walk us through how you groom and prioritize a backlog. What inputs do you weigh?
- How do you write a user story, and what makes acceptance criteria good?
- How do you split a large feature into sprint-sized stories? Give a real example.
- How do you handle a sprint where the team discovers a story was underestimated badly?
- Which delivery metrics do you watch, and what decisions do they inform?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time you said no to a senior stakeholder's request. How did you explain it?
- Describe a conflict between what the team wanted to build and what the business needed.
- How do you stay available to the team without becoming a bottleneck?
Problem-solving / case
- Two stakeholders both insist their feature is the top priority for next sprint. How do you decide and communicate it?
- Mid-sprint, a critical production bug appears. Walk us through how you handle the sprint scope.
- The team consistently delivers stories that pass acceptance criteria but miss user intent. What do you change?
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