Plans Change

During a stakeholder meeting, a customer tells the Product Owner that delivered features sometimes differ in minor ways from what he expected from the Product Backlog. He says, for example, that once a feature had a different font in an early mockup of the feature. The developers explain that during the Sprint they needed to change it to a web safe font that was similar to the one in the mockup so it would work in a wide variety of browsers as intended.

What should the Product Owner do?

Invite the customer to bi-weekly demos of the team's ongoing work to see if it matches his expectations.

Require the Development Team to negotiate with you before changing any Sprint Backlog items.

Explain that minor changes sometimes must be made during development to keep the product acceptable.

Edit the Product Backlog to exactly match any features that are released.

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Difficulty: Easy

Duration: 3 min

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