Motivating Scrum Teams with User-Centric Approaches, Product Owner Best Practices | Rebecca Cyr

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Rebecca Cyr: Motivating Scrum Teams with User-Centric Approaches, Product Owner Best Practices

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The Great Product Owner: Motivating Teams with User-Centric Approaches, PO Best Practices

In this segment, Rebecca shares an inspiring example of a Product Owner (PO) who excelled by focusing on the end-users' needs and facilitating direct communication between the team and users. Through live interviews and feedback sessions, the PO enabled the team to achieve quick wins and foster innovation. This approach created a motivated and empowered team.

The Bad Product Owner: Directive POs and Team Demotivation

In this segment, Rebecca discusses common anti-patterns of Product Owners (POs), such as being overly technical or directive, which can demotivate and disempower teams. She shares a story of a friction-filled relationship between a PO and a team, emphasizing the importance of POs agreeing on the problem to be solved and allowing the team to develop solutions.

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About Rebecca Cyr

Rebecca Cyr is an experienced agile coach and scrum master, passionate about helping teams deliver value through agile principles and practices while learning, growing, and having fun together. Connecting people through deft facilitation is her superpower, as is storytelling as the language of learning.

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