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Ronny Deicke: The Decision Delays Product Owner, an anti-pattern that makes Scrum teams slower

From the stories PO’s tell, the team can get a much better understanding of what they are being asked to do. Great PO’s will help the team through their storytelling, and User Story writing skills. We also discuss the critical role PO’s play in the decision-making process, and how that directly affects the team’s success

The Great Product Owner: The Story Teller PO

Great Product Owners learn to tell great stories. First while talking to the team, and then on their own. In this segment, we talk about a PO that started by learning the craft of telling stories, and then translated that to the User Stories he wrote with the team.

The Bad Product Owner: The Decision Delayer PO

In some teams, the PO is unable to make decisions. When that happens, we have the stage set for the team to struggle, and be constantly delayed by the lack of decisions. In this segment, we talk about the consequences for the team of a PO that can’t make decisions on their own, and we discuss possible steps to take with that PO and that organization.

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About Ronny Deicke

Ronny is a Scrum Master and Agile coach with a developer and team lead background. Currently working as a part-time Scrum Master and in the rest of the time giving (agile) workshops, supporting people as a coach and Agile Coach. Video game enthusiast and Indie developer on the side.

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Ronny Deicke: Organizing the retrospective that your Scrum team needs right now

When it comes to our success as Scrum Masters, Ronny focuses on the team’s journey. He asks if the team is taking brave steps to improve their work, and collaboration with stakeholders. Ronny shares some examples of what might look like in practice.

Featured Retrospective Format for the Week: Organizing the retrospective that your Scrum team needs

Ronny shares that he uses many formats, but that he focuses on preparing a retro that the team needs at that time. In this segment, we talk about several formats, and how to prepare one based on the team’s situation in that Sprint.

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Ronny Deicke: The ultimate measure of speed for Scrum organizations that want to go “faster”

When asked to work on a company transformation, Ronny and his colleagues were given a very fuzzy assignment: “make this go faster”. At that time, the question was so fuzzy they didn’t even know where to start. However, when looking for what “slow” meant for the company they stumbled upon the solution. Listen in to learn what that was, and how they measured the speed during the transformation.

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Ronny Deicke: What happens when we leave a Scrum team behind?

When working with a team, Ronny noticed that the team was making progress. He was satisfied with the progress, and when asked to move to help another team he readily accepted. However, there was a bad surprise about to happen. Listen in to learn about what happened to those teams and what was the lesson that Ronny learned from this experience.

Featured Book of the Week: Start with Why by Simon Sinek

In Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Ronny found an insightful explanation of why we should help discover their purpose or reason to deliver on those User Stories. When reading the book, Ronny also understood how to ask the questions that lead to the team and the stakeholders discovering the answer to the “why?” question.

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Ronny Deicke: Meetings don’t solve problems, people do! A tough lesson for Scrum Masters

To try and help a team solve some of the issues they were already privately complaining about, Ronny organized an open space session. Unfortunately, the team did not bring up the issues they were facing. This led to Ronny realizing that it was not enough to have a space to talk about problems, there were other things missing for that team to be able to talk, and solve the problems they were facing. Listen in to learn about what Ronny tried next, and how well that worked.

About Ronny Deicke

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