Which of the following describes the role of the Product Owner in an Agile context?

The Product Owner is value steward and single ordering voice for the product backlog. Their accountability is to maximize value from the team’s work by clarifying outcomes, ordering backlog items, and ensuring transparency of goals, acceptance criteria, and readiness. They continuously engage customers and stakeholders, translate learning into backlog adjustments, and make scope trade-offs that protect time, cost, and quality. The Product Owner does not approve technical fitness (that sits with technical leadership and agreed quality criteria) nor manage a baselined delivery plan in a command-and-control sense; plans are living forecasts shaped by empirical evidence. Team effectiveness coaching belongs to the Scrum Master. By holding outcome accountability while collaborating closely with delivery and business roles, the Product Owner ensures increments align to strategy, benefits, and the evolving Business Case—precisely what option B states.