Scope of Accountability for a Product Owner

Is the part of the value stream a Product Owner is accountable for, i.e. has authority and responsibility over.

The ideal Scope of Accountability for a PO is the whole value stream. For small product developments, this should happen quite naturally, but in large and composite value streams this is ...

• Usually not happening at the beginning of a transformation process and
• Difficult to achieve, though trying to go in that direction is an effective driver to simplify the organisation.