A transit rider advisory board wants a quarterly vote to set the Product Backlog order for the city’s trip-planning product. What should the Product Owner do?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
An advisory board is a sounding board, not a steering wheel. Votes are useful opinions about pain, not a substitute for one person accountable for value. If the backlog is elected, nobody owns the hard no.
Full Explanation
Customer advisory groups improve discovery and legitimacy for civic products, but they do not own Product Backlog order. Scrum keeps a single Product Owner accountable for maximizing value; committee ranking produces compromise stacks rather than coherent Product Goal progress. The Product Owner should welcome advice, inspect it as evidence, and still make the order decision. Dual Product Owners or finance-weighted votes merely relocate the committee problem.