The article opens with: > In Scrum, Product Owners have sole authority over the Product Backlog; they control what to build and when to build it. Engineers are

The article opens with: > In Scrum, Product Owners have sole authority over the Product Backlog; they control what to build and when to build it. Engineers are merely ticket-takers, implementing one instruction after another. I think this immediately starts the article off in the wrong place. An Engineer that is a "ticket-taker" is relegating themselves to that role; they have more agency than that. If you're able to cogently explain why something needs to done, and are additionally weighing product value while doing that, you will be heard. Stakeholders are not the problem here.