The ART of Selecting SAFe Product Owners

A few weeks ago, I was teaching an executive Leading SAFe class, and our Business Owners were clearly very new to Agile, SAFe and Scrum. As I started the lesson on Team and Technical Agility , I noticed them leaning in to try and better understand the role of the SAFe Product Owner.  We had begun ART design prior to the class, and the subject of identifying Product Owners had already been tabled. After I rattled off my view and answered the many questions that followed, my co-teach said to me...