You are a Product Owner and your Scrum Team is discussing the market response to your most recent release in the Sprint Review. It seems the changes didn’t go over so well and many customers are unhappy.
You’re beginning to discuss that more work will need to be done to the product in order to make progress towards the Product Goal. One of your stakeholders interrupts you. They begin to point out to those attending the Sprint Review how they predicted 3 months ago that these changes wouldn’t work, then resort to degrading name calling while challenging your fitness for the job.
How would you respond, and what further actions would you take?

A multinational corporation prefers purchasing customizable commercially available products over building in-house. Currently they have a need for customized solution for a novel problem with about 58 features. The sponsors have decided to float a request for proposal (RFP). The vendor selection will be based on the best proposal that meets 58 features, within 8 months and the cost of no more than $1.5m.
You are the Product Owner, what would you do and why?

At a Sprint Review the Scrum Team and stakeholders inspect an Increment and discuss a Product Backlog item that is not done, because the required documentation needed for the Product Backlog item is not complete. The stakeholders are happy with the outcome and push the Scrum Team to put the product in the hands of the customer immediately.
You are the Product Owner, what do you do with respect to the Increment and the push by the stakeholders to put the product in the hands of the customer immediately?

Explain the importance of innovation from the perspective of the Product Owner.
Provide 3 specific actions a Product Owner can take to influence innovation.

Scrum is based on empirical process control theory. All of its artifacts must be transparent to ensure sufficient accuracy of inspection.
What factors make the Product Backlog transparent?
Consider an organization with a fully transparent Product Backlog. If a competitor to that organization obtained access to the Product Backlog, could they understand it and use it to their advantage? Please respond with Yes or No, and explain your stance.

Explain the importance of product vision and list two characteristics of a well expressed product vision.
Provide one characteristic of a poorly expressed product vision, and explain why it leads to a poor product vision.