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Oh, we passed all sprint reviews.

In our case the "product owner" is marketing. The lower level marketing personnel I have contact with just match the work to the spec, and can't or won't authorize any work that doesn't exactly match spec. Eventually things are bubbled up to their boss, and communicated somehow and they are handed back a list of priorities.

For example, I recently on my own time implemented a caching mechanism for the most often used views in our product, it increased their loading performance and usability by massive amounts. It was very encapsulated and easy to test, I asked to check the change in for our last sprint, and was told no, it's out of scope.

I'm not saying these are examples of problems with Agile. I'm saying these are examples of problems with Agile as it is sometimes implemented.