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== Description ==
Scale the number of Product Owners to prevent overloading the product ownership function.

== Rationale ==
There are practical limits to the [[Mental Workload]] that a single Product Owner can effectively and sustainably support. Although a single Product Owner is the ideal model, as complexity and scale increases, a limit is reached whereby it becomes necessary to share the load across multiple Product Owners. The mental workload for the role of product ownership has the following contributing factors:
* Scope and depth of business domain expertise required
* Value stream complexity
* Numbers of stakeholder relationships to be maintained
* Number of teams involved in delivery
* Commercial context complexity
* Competencies of the Teams in the business and technical domain and their capability of taking higher-order work

An overloaded Product Owner will likely be:
* Less available to the team and stakeholders leading to a drop in collaboration and delayed decision making.
* Unable to maintain productive relationships with stakeholders
* Less well prepared for Refinement meetings due to a lack of time to understand customer challenges and business context.
* Making lower quality decisions

== Related Principles ==
* [[Each team "sees" exactly one Product Owner]]
* [[The Product Owner is accountable for sustained end value]] ''- Contending''
* [[Minimum Viable Product Owners]] ''- Contending''

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