A five-year smart-city program has a single go-live and no intermediate citizen outcomes for transit, permits, or lighting. What should the Product Owner reframe it as?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
A five-year smart-city switch-flip is a promise that residents will wait five years for the lights to work. Treat it as products — transit, permits, lighting — with goals that can ship this year. Incremental outcomes beat one distant ribbon-cutting.
Full Explanation
Long municipal programs can be recast as a product-oriented portfolio with incremental goals, preserving empiricism and Current Value along the way. Replacing Product Owners with a program manager, freezing requirements, or imposing a single citywide increment objective all restore predictive control. Incremental Product Goals let the city inspect real outcomes and stop or pivot without waiting for a five-year go-live.