Since product owners are often promoted from within, let's look at some of the roles people have before they become product donors.
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The most common move is from business analyst to product owner.
A business analysts is often the right hand of product-owner, doing portions of job to help the product.
If the current product owner moves on to a new product or company, the analyst often becomes the product donor.
Another common move is from product manager to productowner.
There's no industry-wide agreement on the differences between these roles.
Most common, however, is that product managers are outward-facing, dealing with customers, competitors, pricing, marketing,
and so on.
Product owners are then inward-facing and working with the team and treating the product manager as a stakeholder.
Similarly, a common transition is from project manager to product owner.
As organizations adopt Agile, project managers often become scrum masters, coaches, or product owners.
A fourth common transition is from a user of the product.
This is especially common for internally developed software.
Users will often have the industry knowledge required.
Those who develop a passion for the products often make great product owners.
Finally, development team members can make great product owners.
This is especially true of UX designers and testers.
So should you become a product owner?
First, you'll want to have the skills I've listed and see a path from your current role to becoming a Product Owner.
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