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Product Owner Simulator
Prioritise a crowded backlog when everyone's request is urgent
15–25 minutes Product Owners, product managers and POPM candidates
The situation
Planning is in two days. Capacity covers about half of what has been asked for. Sales has promised a feature to a large prospect, support is drowning in a defect, and a long-running platform item keeps slipping.
You play: Product Owner heading into the next planning cycle
In the room: Sales Director (promised a feature to close a deal), Support Lead (defect backlog is growing), Engineering Lead (wants platform work funded), Customer (articulate, has a real need), Stakeholder Executive (asks for the numbers behind your choices)
Prioritisation reasoningStakeholder managementSaying no with evidenceValue articulationBacklog decisions under constraint