Product Owner ... or Component Owner?

The every Product Owner serves one team fallacy

“Our Scrum Teams have a Product Owner, a Scrum Master and the Development Team. Every Product Owner serves one Scrum Team”.

What is wrong with this statement?

Well, it starts with the fact that the Product Owner doesn’t serve a team but instead is responsible for maximizing the value of the product. When we underline this, we can then draw the following c…