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Junior Product Owner Skills Assessment

Assessment Summary

Junior Product Owners assist with backlog management for agile teams. They help ensure that their team is working on the right priorities. They gather requirements from stakeholders/clients, write & refine user stories, participate in agile rituals e.g planning/estimation. A junior product owner should be able to engage with clients/stakeholders to understand their needs, actively seeking to become a subject matter expert and helping the tech team understand these requirements. A junior product owner would usually be completing the above with the support of a Senior PO or Product Manager. This assessment contains 10 questions that test a candidates ability to succeed as a Junior Product Owner.

Skills tested in this assessment

The skills that are tested in this assessment for a Junior Product Owner include how skilled the candidate is in a variety of areas pertinent to the day to day of a Junior PO.The assessment will test how the candidate tackles documenting requirements for their agile team to work on. The assessment will test how skilled the candidate is at communicating with stakeholders. The assessment will assess the level of understanding in regards to agile ways of working.

What to test with this assessment

You can expect to learn whether the candidate can complete the main tasks required of a Junior Product Owner. This includes, gathering & documenting of requirements, working and understanding agile practices and communicating with stakeholders. The assessment will also highlight the level of the candidates understanding of agile ways of working, proficiency in product management skills.

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A Junior Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product or feature during the development process. Junior Product owners do this by supporting Product Owners, promoting team collaboration, and prioritizing customer feedback.

The Junior Product Owner test assesses whether job candidates can successfully handle any challenges that they are faced with whilst following company processes.

Candidates who perform well on this Product Owner assessment will have all the technical skills to effectively market a product within your company.

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  1. Question 1DocumentationText

    A key skill for a Junior Product Owner is a basic understanding of how users experience products and their features. A junior product owner should be able to communicate basic functionality of digital products to stakeholders. Identify three attributes (components/features/design choices/functionlity) on YouTube and what makes them useful for customers/users. You do not need to be technical in your answer, simply state different features of the product (youtube.com) and how it is useful for a customer/user. Use a couple of sentences for each feature & associated benefit. Your examples can come from the youtube website or the mobile application.

  2. Question 2CommunicationText

    Your team has pushed their latest change to production i.e customers can now see the work they completed live on your company website. Unfortunately, the change introduced a bug into production e.g caused an unexpected outage of the website for 10 minutes. The team was able to complete a fix. You need to alert your manager about what has happened. Write the email to your manager communicating the incident.

  3. Question 3Product ManagementMultiple Choice

    Which of the following options is not an agile ritual?

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