An emergency-alerts product faces a hard legal deadline for a required public notification path. What should the Product Owner do about scope and the forecast?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
A legal siren date is real; a stuffed Sprint of extra channels is not. Cut to the smallest Done path that actually notifies the public in time. Heroics and stretch piles are how alerts miss the statute and the residents.
Full Explanation
Hard external dates, including statutory ones, are constraints the Product Owner negotiates with scope, not with fake capacity. A minimal releasable Increment that meets the law and the Definition of Done is a valid date-driven forecast; stuffing stretch goals is not. Scrum does not forbid acknowledging a legal deadline, and it does not permit slipping a required public-safety path by treating the date as optional. Value and compliance are protected by thinning scope to what can be Done.