Near-term tactics on a city flood-alert product keep being invalidated by evidence, while the aim of timely, trusted warnings remains sound. How should the Product Owner treat the goals ladder?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
The city still wants timely, trusted flood warnings — that destination can sit still while the next turn keeps changing. Failed tactics are learning, not a reason to invent a new strategy every Sprint or to ignore the evidence for a year. Hold the aim, churn the experiments.
Full Explanation
Evidence-Based Management keeps strategic intent stable enough to align investment, while Immediate Tactical Goals are expected to change as experiments fail or succeed. For flood alerts, timely trusted warnings can remain the Strategic Goal even as channels, timing, and trust experiments churn. Rewriting strategy every Sprint destroys orientation; freezing tactics for a year ignores evidence; a Program Increment feature roadmap replaces both with unevidenced output. The Product Owner should adapt tactics and protect the strategic aim until evidence says the aim itself is wrong.