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Yep, that works 100%.

I'm still a big believer in "separation of powers" a la Scrum.

There should be a "Product Owner" that can be anyone really, and in the other side there is a self-managed development team that doesn't include this participant. This gives the team leverage to do things their way and act as a real engineering team.

The reason scrum was killed is because of PMs trying to get themselves into those teams and hijacking the process. Developers hated "PM-based scrum", which is not really scrum at all.