Mid-year, the transit bureau cuts the product budget by 40 percent. The current Product Goal assumed a citywide fare-capping rollout. What should the Product Owner do?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
When the grocery money shrinks, you do not keep the same feast and yell at the cook. The Product Goal has to shrink to the meals you can still serve well. Highest-value surviving outcomes beat a pretend citywide rollout.
Full Explanation
Funding strategy is part of product strategy. When budget drops mid-year, the Product Owner must adapt Product Goals and ordering to the outcomes still worth pursuing under the new constraint. Keeping the old goal and demanding speed, freezing work, or spreading remnants evenly all ignore opportunity cost. Empirical Product Ownership chooses a smaller inspectable goal rather than an unfunded citywide promise.