A library branch manager keeps a spreadsheet of "the real work" and tells Developers to follow it instead of the Product Backlog. What should the Product Owner do?
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Short Explanation
Two maps of the same city is how people drive into the river. A shadow spreadsheet is a second product pretending not to be one. The Product Owner kills the duplicate source of truth so the team has one ordered list.
Full Explanation
A Product Backlog is the single source of work for a product. Shadow backlogs—spreadsheets, side agreements, branch-manager lists—destroy transparency and let unofficial order override value-based order. Copying rows after the fact keeps the dual-source problem. The Product Owner must collapse competing lists rather than legitimize them as extra products.