Which of the following are reasonable options you could take?

You have been a Product Owner at a new company for a few weeks. It has become clear to you that many people, both inside and outside the Scrum Team, expect close involvement in the decisions that you, as a Product Owner, are accountable for. As a result, you find that it takes too long to make decisions.

Which of the following are reasonable options you could take? (choose the best three answers)
A . Start making all the decisions you are accountable for without consulting the others who have expressed interest.
B. Create and share a delegation board that display your decision-making areas and work with your Scrum Team to clarify decision making accountability and responsibility.
C. Work with your Scrum Master to better understand what next steps you can take to move the company’s understanding of product ownership up in the maturity curve towards Entrepreneur.
D. Demonstrate, with the help of data, how long it is taking you to make decisions and the impact that the long decision-making cycle has on delivering value to the customers.
E. Allow other members of the Scrum Team to continues as the decision makers, but keep a list of decisions that do not deliver their intended value.

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Answer: C,D,E

Explanation:

A) Create and share a delegation board that displays your decision-making areas and work with your Scrum Team to clarify decision making accountability and responsibility.

(Incorrect)

The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product.

The Product Owner may do the above work or may delegate the responsibility to others. Regardless, the Product Owner remains accountable. The Product Owner never can delegates his accountability

B) Allow other members of the Scrum Team to continues as the decision makers, but keep a list of decisions that do not deliver their intended value. (Correct)

The Product Owner may do the above work or may delegate the responsibility to others. Regardless, the Product Owner remains accountable. The Product Owner never can delegates his accountability

If the Product Owner allows other members of the Scrum Team to continues as the decision makers, it means he is delegating the responsibility of these decisions, but he remains accountable. The Product Owner can decide what things should delegate or not. That is the reason this answer is correct.

C) Demonstrate, with the help of data, how long it is taking you to make decisions and the impact that the long decision-making cycle has on delivering value to the customers. (Correct)

The Scrum Master will support the Developers, the Product Owner, and the Organization to apply Scrum and optimize Scrum value to ensure the trust between teams; transparency is always kept so that the Scrum Team can have self-organizing to make the right decisions, what to do and when is the best time.

D) Work with your Scrum Master to better understand what next steps you can take to move the company’s understanding of product ownership up in the maturity curve towards Entrepreneur.(Correct) The Scrum Master is responsible for the process success―for helping the product owner and the team use the right process to create a successful product, and for facilitating organisational change and establishing an agile way of working. Consequently, the Scrum Master collaborates with the product owner and the Developers as well as senior management, human resources (HR), and the business groups affected by Scrum.

E) Start making all the decisions you are accountable for without consulting the others who have expressed interest.

(Incorrect)

Although the Product Owner can have the final say on decisions, it is important that they take all parties into consideration.