Product Owner Excellence

1.5-hour accreditation interview. The candidate must: - Provide evidence of at least 5 years of experience as a Product Owner (or 2 years if continuously mentored by an ACA Accredited Coach), across multiple products or organizational contexts. - Answer 3 questions requiring strategic reasoning about product leadership, organizational alignment, and enabling team autonomy. - Provide evidence of having owned and sustained 4 real Product Goals across different products or contexts, with documented outcomes. - Provide evidence of having defined product strategy for 4 real products, including how trade-offs were navigated at organizational level. - Provide evidence of 2 facilitated customer or user empathy sessions with documented impact on product decisions. - Present 2 case studies of product hypothesis validation, including experimental design, results, and decisions taken. - Present 2 case studies of managing a complex Product Backlog under significant organizational, stakeholder, or technical constraints. - Provide evidence of having mentored or developed at least 1 other Product Owner. - Share self-improvement goals that reflect a mastery-level perspective on product leadership.