On a regional transit-fare product, three teams have each written a different Product Goal—one for mobile wallets, one for paper transfers, one for retailer terminals. What should the Product Owner do?
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Short Explanation
Three Product Goals on one fare product is three compasses on one bus. Pick the destination riders actually need. Team-local goals can be Sprint Goals or tactics, not competing product destinations.
Full Explanation
Scaled teams working on one product share one Product Goal—the commitment of the single Product Backlog. Independent Product Goals produce incompatible Increments and destroy product-level empiricism. The Product Owner is accountable for that goal and for ordering work toward it. Scrum Master negotiation after the fact, or OKRs that ignore riders, cannot substitute for one product-level commitment.