Where Do We Find Product Owners?

The Product Owner is typically sourced from a discipline that has a level of domain expertise for the Product they are working. Potential sources include:

Someone directly from the industry

Senior support person

Senior marketing person

Senior technical person on the Team

If the domain expertise is not available then the person needs to have “Domain curiosity”; a willingness to dig in deeply to understand the (potential) customers.

In general, it is easier to train someone with domain experience how to be a Product Owner than it is to teach a generic Product Owner the domain.

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