Finance will capitalize a big parks-reservation rewrite but will not fund a small operating line for continuous improvement of the live reservation product, even though the rewrite is the worse citizen outcome. What should the Product Owner do?
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Short Explanation
If the city will only pay for a new kitchen, not for keeping the current stove working, dinner still suffers. Capital-versus-operating labels can shove a parks product toward a flashy rewrite. Put that distortion on the table with finance instead of pretending the accounting code is a product strategy.
Full Explanation
Budget taxonomy — capital versus operating — often fights agility by making large rewrites easier to fund than incremental improvement of a live civic product. Advanced Product Owners make that distortion transparent to finance partners so leadership can change the constraint or accept it consciously. Optimizing inside a silent distortion, manufacturing extra capital projects, or withholding releases to force a crisis all hide the real portfolio problem.