Legal counsel is a key stakeholder for the municipal records-request product because of retention and public-records law. Counsel sends a 40-item mandatory backlog that is mostly internal legal workflows. Residents still cannot file or track a request. What should the Product Owner do?
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Short Explanation
Legal is a smoke detector, not the architect. You want them in the room early so the records product does not burn the city down—and you still build the door residents use to file a request. Constraints in; takeover out.
Full Explanation
Specialist stakeholders must be engaged early so legal constraints are visible, but they do not own whole-product value. The Product Owner incorporates retention and public-records constraints and still orders work that lets residents file and track requests. Replacing the backlog with legal's list, excluding counsel, or transferring the Product Owner role all fail the balance. Early engagement plus Product Owner ordering is the advanced stance.