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Tag: Stakeholders

  • The Meta-Retrospective — Check Out the Free Miroverse Template

    The Meta-Retrospective — Check Out the Free Miroverse Template

    TL; DR: The Meta-Retrospective

    The Meta-Retrospective is an excellent exercise to foster collaboration within the extended team, create a shared understanding of the big picture, and immediately create valuable action-items. It comprises team members of one or several product teams—or a representative from those—and stakeholders. Participants from the stakeholder side are people from the business as well as customers. Meta-Retrospectives are useful both as a regular event, say once a quarter, or after achieving a particular milestone, for example, a specific release of the product.

    Read more on how to organize such a Meta-Retrospective and do not forget to check out the free Miro Meta-Retrospective template.

    The Meta-Retrospective — Check Out the Free Miroverse Template

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  • The Top Three System-Level Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

    TL; DR: System-Level Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

    Learn how outdated organizational structures manifest themselves in system-level Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns that easily impede any agile transformation to a product-led organization. We cover the perils of a lack of transparency, limited to non-existing leadership support, and why penny-pinching is the wrong approach.

    The Top Three System-Level Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns — Berlin-Product-People.com

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  • How Scrum Teams Fail Stakeholders and What You Can Do About It

    TL; DR: How Scrum Teams Fail Stakeholders

    In this article, we uncover typical ways in which Scrum teams fail stakeholders, from overpromising results to poor risk communication to neglecting feedback. Moreover, we will also explore actionable strategies to overcome these anti-patterns by building trust, aligning priorities, and enhancing collaboration for successful product development.

    How Scrum Teams Fail Stakeholders and What You Can Do About It — Berlin-Product-People.com

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  • Creating a Personal Readme for Scrum Masters with ChatGPT

    TL; DR: Creating a Personal Readme for Scrum Masters with ChatGPT

    Providing a personal readme to your new teammates and stakeholders as a Scrum Master is a great way to build trust and rapport while managing expectations at the same time. I do so regularly and having a template for that purpose comes in handy.

    Therefore, I thought it also might be an excellent exercise to test ChatGPT on more practical aspects of a Scrum Master’s work. So please follow the complete path to having ChatGPT create a decent personal readme template for Scrum Masters—which took me less than 20 minutes.

    Creating a Personal Readme for Scrum Masters with ChatGPT — Berlin-Product-People.com

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  • Unengaged Stakeholders at the Sprint Review — Making Your Scrum Work #25

    TL; DR: Unengaged Stakeholders

    There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, what if your Scrum team repeatedly faces unengaged stakeholders at the Sprint Review? How can the Scrum team stay on track in accomplishing the Product Goal when a vital feedback loop is missing?

    Join me and delve into how to support your stakeholders in living up to their part of the collaboration with the Scrum team in less than two minutes.

    Unengaged Stakeholders at the Sprint Review — Making Your Scrum Work #25 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • Stakeholder Trust

    TL; DR: Stakeholder Trust

    Trust is the beginning of everything. I am hesitant to recycle an old slogan of a banking institute. However, in the context of becoming a learning organization and embracing business agility, it condenses the main challenge perfectly: How shall we convince the incumbents with vested interests in the status quo to give the new way of working the benefit of the doubt? Join me and delve into how distrust manifests and what we can do to earn stakeholder trust.

    Stakeholder Trust — Scrum Master Survival Guide — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • 36 Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

    36 Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

    TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

    Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns that easily impede any agile transformation to a product-led organization.

    36 Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns — Scrum Anti-Patterns 2022 — Age-of-Product.com

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  • Overruling the Product Owner? — Making Your Scrum Work #21

    TL; DR: Overruling the Product Owner

    There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Since Scrum is an intentionally incomplete framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, what if the stakeholders—who bring the budget that is funding your Scrum team—insist on calling the shots by overruling the Product Owner’s prerogative to define the composition and the ordering the Product Backlog? What if your stakeholders suffer from the “my budget, my feature” syndrome?

    Join me and delve into the effects of overruling the Product Owner in less than 140 seconds.

    Overruling the Product Owner? — Making Your Scrum Work #21 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • Three Wide-Spread Stakeholder Failures in 6:05 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work #8

    TL; DR: Three Wide-Spread Stakeholder Failures

    There are plenty of Scrum stakeholder failures. Given that Scrum is a framework with a precise and concise yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. While the Scrum Guide makes numerous references to stakeholders in Scrum, stakeholders themselves are no official role (accountability), no matter their crucial contribution to a Scrum team’s overall success.

    Explore with me three widespread examples of how stakeholders fail their Scrum teams in three short video clips, totaling 6 minutes and 5 seconds.

    Three Wide-Spread Stakeholder Failures in 6:05 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work #8

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  • Three Wide-Spread Stakeholder Failures in 6:05 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work #8

    TL; DR: Three Wide-Spread Stakeholder Failures

    There are plenty of Scrum stakeholder failures. Given that Scrum is a framework with a precise and concise yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. While the Scrum Guide makes numerous references to stakeholders in Scrum, stakeholders themselves are no official role (accountability), no matter their crucial contribution to a Scrum team’s overall success.

    Explore with me three widespread examples of how stakeholders fail their Scrum teams in three short video clips, totaling 6 minutes and 5 seconds.

    Three Wide-Spread Stakeholder Failures in 6:05 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work #8 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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