Mid-Sprint, the health director dumps three extra outbreak-dashboard widgets onto the public-health Scrum Team. The Sprint Goal is a working exposure map for school nurses. What should the Product Owner do?
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Short Explanation
Mid-Sprint widget thrash is like changing the fire-drill route while the drill is already running. The Sprint Goal is the one thing the team committed to make useful for school nurses. Park the extra widgets on the Product Backlog and keep this Sprint pointed.
Full Explanation
Focus, expressed through the Sprint Goal, is how a Scrum Team delivers a coherent Increment instead of scattered output. Executive requests mid-Sprint are Product Backlog candidates, not automatic scope for the current Sprint. Adding widgets, canceling Daily Scrum, or creating unofficial side-quests all destroy focus and endanger Done. The Product Owner should protect the exposure-map Sprint Goal and order the new work later if it is valuable.