At a Sprint Review a stakeholder proposes an integration with his reporting tool. Two Developers say it looks like a week of work, the head of sales says it should go straight to the top, and the Scrum Master is asked to write the decision down. Who decides whether the integration enters the Product Backlog and where it sits?
Professional Scrum Master I, objective 3. Managing products with agility medium
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Not correct The attendees together, since the Sprint Review is where the Scrum Team and stakeholders collaborate on what to do next
Wrong, and it is the strongest distractor here because the collaboration is real and the Product Backlog genuinely may be adjusted during the event. But collaboration is the input; the ordering decision that comes out of it belongs to one accountability.
Correct The Product Owner, who is accountable for creating Product Backlog items and for ordering them
Correct. Both halves of the question — whether it goes in at all and where it goes — are the same accountability, exercised in the open at the Review rather than afterwards in private.
Not correct The Developers, because they are the ones who know what the integration costs
Wrong. The Developers who will be doing the work are responsible for the sizing, and what they say a thing costs is a serious input, but cost is not value and sizing is not ordering.
Not correct The head of sales, as the most senior person present and the one answerable for revenue
Wrong, and inverted. Scrum's requirement runs the other way: for Product Owners to succeed, the entire organisation must respect their decisions — seniority does not acquire the Product Backlog.
Why
A Sprint Review is a room full of legitimate opinions and one accountable decision-maker, and PSM I loves the gap between those. Stakeholders supply what changed in their world, Developers supply what things cost, and the Product Owner converts both into content and order in the Product Backlog. Nothing about collaborating on what to do next hands the ordering to the room, and nothing about seniority moves it either.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- Scrum Guide section Product Owner
- What it says
- Ordering Product Backlog items
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