Council wants a weekly percent-complete number for a multi-year permitting modernization whose remaining scope is still uncertain. What should the Product Owner offer instead?
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Short Explanation
Percent-complete on a moving permitting scope is like saying the road is 70% finished while the map is still being drawn. Show burn-up toward a Product Goal and say what is still unknown. Council can handle uncertainty; they cannot use a fake percentage.
Full Explanation
Percent-complete against uncertain, still-discovered scope systematically misleads because the denominator is not stable. A burn-up toward a Product Goal, paired with remaining unknowns, gives council inspectable progress without a fake fraction. Scrum does not forbid transparency with elected officials; it forbids substituting predictive theater for empiricism. Earned-value indexes on a frozen WBS recreate the same completeness myth in PMI clothing and are not the Product Owner's forecast tool here.