Product Owner Proficiency

1-hour accreditation interview. The candidate must: - Provide evidence of at least 2 years of experience as a Product Owner (or 1 year if continuously mentored by an ACA Accredited Coach). Evidence must include contracts, references, or written recommendations. - Answer 2 questions that probe judgment in complex Product Owner situations (e.g., conflicting stakeholder priorities, unclear value, team resistance). - Provide evidence of having owned and sustained 2 real Product Goals: what they were, how they were communicated, and whether they were achieved. - Provide evidence of having defined and executed product strategy for 2 real products, including how decisions were made. - Provide evidence of 1 facilitated session focused on empathizing with customers or users (user interviews, usability testing, discovery workshop) and its outcomes. - Present 1 case study of a product hypothesis validated or invalidated through experimentation. - Present 1 case study of managing a Product Backlog under real pressure: competing priorities, stakeholder demands, or technical complexity. - Share at least 3 self-improvement goals grounded in patterns from their practice.