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Product owner

As explained in Delivering Machine Learning Projects: From design to deployment

A product owner is a customer representative who provides feedback and priorities so a project responds to customer needs.

A product owner is a client representative who brings customer feedback and priorities into an ML project. The role helps the team keep its work connected to user needs and business context. section 3.2.2

Decide how much investigation the product owner can realistically do. A client acting as product owner may work with users and stakeholders to develop insights for the team leader and help technical contributors understand business data. If detailed investigation would consume too much of the owner’s time, assign it to a business translator. section 3.2.2

How Delivering Machine Learning Projects: From design to deployment covers it

How deep it goes
Describes staffing choices around stakeholder investigation, but does not specify a procedure for gathering feedback or setting priorities.
Examples
Contrasts a client acting as product owner with a team that assigns detailed business investigation to a specialist.
What you can do after
Evaluate/understand when a client product owner can support business investigation and when a separate specialist may be needed.
How it connects
Connects the role to business translators, data engineers, users, stakeholders, and ML project teams.

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