Recreation-booking value is blocked by a hiring-policy freeze on digital access for park staff, an issue no Scrum Team can lift alone. What should the Product Owner do?
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Short Explanation
Some rocks are too big for the team’s shovel. A hiring-policy freeze on park-staff access is a city-level boulder, not a Sprint task to hide in the code. Put it on an org impediment list and walk it to leadership with the Scrum Master.
Full Explanation
Structural impediments—policy, funding, and cross-department constraints—cannot be removed by team tactics alone. The Product Owner should make those impediments transparent on an organizational list and collaborate with the Scrum Master and leadership to address them. Secret workarounds, cancelling Scrum, or relabeling the freeze as a Product Goal all hide the design problem. Advanced Product Ownership includes escalating org-design blockers that starve product value.