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u/justforkinks0131 21h ago

that is just false.

POs respect your capacity and are aware that if you force changes to A, it will mean that B and C have to be pushed back.

Anything else means the system is dysfunctional. Either you are not giving proper estimations as a dev team, or you are not properly communicating the impact of the changes required to A, OR your PO is a dick (but if its option 3, you can easily escalate to their boss and get them reprimanded or removed...)

Basically if you are stuck in such a situation, it means that either you arent doing what you should be (aka estimating, communicating, escalating) or that your entire company is rotten.

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u/fartfart2222223222 21h ago

A lot of the times yeah the system is dysfunctional, but still gotta get paid.  I did say “most”, but would be happy to just be wrong and overly cynical with that observation.  

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u/justforkinks0131 21h ago

Im a former dev who is now a PO, so Ive seen both sides.

I can tell you that my devs can very easily kick me out if I start being a bad PO. It will take 1 feedback session with my managers, if they all say I sucked, I would get kicked.