Save valuable time with our do-it-yourself workshops. Each workshop contains a fully prepared string of Liberating Structures to help your team use Scrum more effectively. People who support our mission through patreon.com can download all digital content for free. This benefit starts from $5 USD/month.
How does this help your team?
When has your Scrum team talked with the stakeholders about the product they're building? With stakeholders, we don't mean people with an opinion about the product, but someone that really uses (or will use) it frequently. Or someone that invested significantly in the development of the product and will personally benefit from the challenge your product addresses.
In short, a stakeholder is someone who helps you decide what is valuable to work on next because it’s important to them the product succeeds.
In our work with Scrum teams, we've noticed that many of them don't frequently interact with their real stakeholders. Sure, they occasionally host a Sprint Review but are the attendee's stakeholders, or just people with an opinion about the product? There are various reasons why they don't frequently interact with stakeholders. It could be that Scrum teams don't know who their real stakeholders are, or they don't know *how* to involve them.
It's important to frequently engage with your stakeholders. You need their experiences, ideas, and feedback to learn what to build next. Maybe, while using an early version of the product, an important new insight emerged that impacts the roadmap and Product Backlog. Or changed circumstances in the market require a quick release of a specific feature. You'll only discover this when you closely collaborate with your stakeholders.
If you recognize this situation and want to improve it, consider giving this do-it-yourself workshop a try. For example, during the Sprint Review. You'll use the Liberating Structure UX Fishbowl to actively listen to your stakeholders and together gain new ideas, insights, and improvements.
In short, a stakeholder is someone who helps you decide what is valuable to work on next because it’s important to them the product succeeds.
In our work with Scrum teams, we've noticed that many of them don't frequently interact with their real stakeholders. Sure, they occasionally host a Sprint Review but are the attendee's stakeholders, or just people with an opinion about the product? There are various reasons why they don't frequently interact with stakeholders. It could be that Scrum teams don't know who their real stakeholders are, or they don't know *how* to involve them.
It's important to frequently engage with your stakeholders. You need their experiences, ideas, and feedback to learn what to build next. Maybe, while using an early version of the product, an important new insight emerged that impacts the roadmap and Product Backlog. Or changed circumstances in the market require a quick release of a specific feature. You'll only discover this when you closely collaborate with your stakeholders.
If you recognize this situation and want to improve it, consider giving this do-it-yourself workshop a try. For example, during the Sprint Review. You'll use the Liberating Structure UX Fishbowl to actively listen to your stakeholders and together gain new ideas, insights, and improvements.
How does it work?
The PDF outlines a detailed step-by-step 90-minute workshop that relies on Liberating Structures to engage and unleash your team. The string is designed with virtual teams in mind and includes:
- Impromptu Networking
- UX Fishbowl
- 1-2-4-ALL
What do you receive?
- A 12-page full-color guide (PDF).
- We take you through the flow of the string in great detail. Not only do we explain all the steps involved, but we also explain why they are happening. This should make it easier to design your own strings in the future.
- The instructions support all virtual collaboration tools where you can create breakouts or separate channels occasionally.
- You can set up an additional virtual whiteboard in a tool like Mural, Google Slides, or Miro if you prefer.
- The PDF outlines additional resources and useful reading, both to prepare and to distribute afterward.
More inspiration
- Get our book the "Zombie Scrum Survival Guide";
- Explore our paper "10 Powerful Experiments to Overcome Zombie Scrum"
- Read our whitepaper where we explain the Scrum framework, and its principles and values, in our own words.