20 Questions PO

20 Questions from a New Scrum Master to the Product Owner

1. What are the product vision and the corresponding go-to-market strategy?
2. How do you learn about new ideas and requirements?
3. How do you include user research in the product discovery process?
4. How much time do you allocate on user research and understanding your customers’ needs?
5. At what stage do you involve the Scrum team in the product discovery process?
6. How do you organize the collaboration with stakeholders?
7. How do you deal with pet projects?
8. What is your approach to creating product roadmaps?
9. How large is your product backlog?
10. What is the typical age of a user story in the product backlog?
11. What is your average lead time from picking an idea for validation to adding the corresponding user story to the product backlog?
12. Does your product backlog contain user stories none of the current team members is familiar with?
13. How often are you grooming the product backlog?
14. On how many user stories are you working in parallel during backlog grooming?
15. How long does the grooming of a typical user story take?
16. How are you creating user stories? (Is it a joint team effort?)
17. How are you discussing user stories? (Only during grooming sessions or also on Slack or via comments on tickets, for example?)
18. Are you changing user stories once they become an item of a sprint backlog?
19. When do you accept user stories?
20. Have you ever rejected user stories?