The permitting portfolio funds only delivery factories that implement already-written form fields, while discovery of why applicants abandon filings is unfunded. What should the Product Owner ensure?
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Short Explanation
A factory that only stamps permit forms is useless if people walk out of the lobby before they file. Discovery is the person standing in the lobby asking why. A portfolio that funds only builders never learns whether it is building the right civic service.
Full Explanation
Agile portfolios must fund discovery and validation or they will optimize output on the wrong problems. When the permitting portfolio funds only delivery factories that implement already-written form fields, while discovery of why applicants abandon filings is unfunded, Unrealized Value stays invisible. The Product Owner should ensure portfolio capacity is reserved for discovery and validation, not only for build throughput. A vendor RFP that gates all Sprints, or a legal requirements freeze, restores waterfall discovery-up-front rather than empirical product work.
Adding more factory teams so abandoned filings can be processed faster once they arrive fails by accelerating the wrong work. Outsourcing discovery to a vendor RFP that must complete before any Sprint may start fails by gating empiricism behind a big upfront study. Replacing Product Backlog refinement with a business-requirements freeze from legal fails by locking learning out of the backlog.
Exam caveat: Reserve portfolio capacity for discovery, not only for delivery factories. Operational check: Allocate a standing slice of permitting capacity to abandonment discovery experiments, and require outcome learning—not only form-field throughput—in portfolio reviews.