Three Scrum Teams now work on one city building-permit product. Department heads want a Product Owner and a backlog per team. What should the Product Owner maintain?
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Short Explanation
One product, one menu, one person accountable for the order. Three permit backlogs is three restaurants pretending they share a kitchen. Residents file one permit, so the city needs one Product Backlog and one Product Owner.
Full Explanation
Scrum scales around the product, not around team count. A single product has one Product Goal, one Product Backlog, and one Product Owner accountability so order stays coherent. Splitting into per-team Product Owners and backlogs creates competing orders and hidden integration work. A PMO master schedule is not a Product Backlog and does not restore that accountability.