Thread 7: No PM Role Boundary Ownership Confusion

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https://www.reddit.com/r/agile/comments/1s6nk8y/defining_roles_with_po_tpo_as_sme_when_theres_no/

Full Post Text (Key Excerpt)

“Defining roles with PO, TPO as SME when there’s no PM?”

Why This Matches Ryva ICP

The team is explicitly asking who owns what when product coordination roles are missing. This is core Ryva ICP pain: implicit decisions and unclear ownership create delivery drift.

Underlying Problem

Role boundaries are ambiguous, so decision ownership and escalation paths are unclear.

Suggested Public Reply (Copy)

This is less a role-title problem and more an ownership contract problem. If no PM exists, each recurring decision type still needs a named owner, fallback owner, and escalation rule. Without that, the team will keep relitigating scope and priority in meetings.

Suggested DM Idea (Copy)

Your role-boundary question is exactly where projects leak momentum. I can share a one-page owner map template teams use when PM responsibilities are split across PO/TPO/SME.