How Product Owners Lose Control of the Backlog (and How to Take It Back)
On paper, the Product Owner role looks powerful: set priorities, maximize value, say “no.” In practice, many Product Owners end up acting more like air traffic controllers for stakeholder requests, trying to keep everything from crashing while having very little authority to change the flight plan. This isn’t a failure of Scrum. It’s a failure of organizational clarity, decision rights, and … Read more