The city merges parks-and-recreation with the public-health wellness unit. Each still has its own program catalog, membership rules, and resident-app narrative. Leadership names one Product Owner for the combined resident wellness product. What should the Product Owner do first?
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Short Explanation
Taping two menus together is not a restaurant concept. When parks and public health become one product, somebody has to write the new story of what wellness means for residents. Until that joint strategy exists, the backlog is just two old departments arguing in one list.
Full Explanation
Organizational mergers do not automatically produce a product strategy. The Product Owner should reset strategy into one coherent narrative and Product Goal set so ordering has a basis. Concatenating backlogs, weekly political picking, or dual Product Owners preserve the old conflict instead of resolving it. Explicit joint strategy is the prerequisite for treating the merged catalogs as one product.