Professional Scrum Product Owner Iii PSPO Iii · Free Practice Question Medium
Question 4
"Technical debt is the sole concern of the Developers".
As a Product Owner, do you agree with this statement ?
Why or why not ?
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Explanation
Do not agree. Technical debt influences agility, delivery and quality of the product.
As a Product Owner, it is important to understand the implications of technical debt and work with the development team to prioritize debt repayment and make informed trade-off decisions between delivering new features and paying down debt. The more technical debt is built up, the harder it becomes to add to the product, eventually slowing down development to a near halt. This makes it everyone's concern. When you’re no longer able to deliver working software, the whole of the organization and its customers suffer.
The Developers are the ones responsible for knowing when technical debt occurs. However, it’s everyone’s concern to keep the debt within acceptable limits by addressing it during sprints. For the Product Owner and stakeholders, this means not all work in a sprint will add new functionality to the product.
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