A municipal public-health center of excellence publishes a mandatory Product Backlog template and claims enterprise ownership of every health-program backlog, including vaccine booking. What should the Product Owner do?
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Short Explanation
A CoE is a helpful shop class, not the owner of every product’s shopping list. Templates can coach a vaccine-booking team; they must not snatch the Product Backlog. One Product Owner still owns ordering for that product, or the backlog becomes a corporate form instead of a value tool.
Full Explanation
Centers of excellence can spread practices, coaching, and optional templates, but they do not take Product Backlog accountability away from the Product Owner of a product. Vaccine booking still needs one person accountable for ordering work against a Product Goal. Splitting ownership between a CoE “standard” list and a local list recreates conflicting orders. Support the CoE as an enabler; do not let it become a shadow Product Owner.