Product Owner role in Scrum I have a very basic knowledge of Scrum. Please guide me about the following questions: 1. What is role of the _Product Owner_ in daily Scrum, should _PO_ be a part of this meeting? 2. In a real world scenario a Product Owner is the person who acts as the customer. Can a _team member_ be nominated _as a Proxy_ of product owner? 3. Can we say that a _Project Manager_ who directly interacts with the customer is nominated _as the proxy of a Product Owner_? 4. When we use term _External Stakeholders Engagement_ , are we referring to a Product Owner or someone else?

1. The Product Owner is not a mandatory attendee at the Daily Scrum, which is only for the Development Team. If the Product Owner does turn up, they should not speak or take any active role in the meeting.

2. A Product Owner reflects the wishes of the stakeholders and is the single decision maker in terms of ordering items on the product backlog. They can appoint a proxy but it's considered a poor practice as you've added a layer of communication and increased the chances that the actual Product Owner might overrule a proxy's decision(s), which negates some of the positive elements of scrum. This could be a huge waste and very harmful to productivity.

3. There is no role called Project Manager in scrum and best advice is to avoid appointing proxies, where possible.

4. As point 2 above. The Product Owner reflects the wishes of the stakeholders. They are a central point of reference for both stakeholders and the scrum team.