Empowering You to Empower Them: How to Navigate the Messy Connection between Work and Value in your Team Masterclass

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A Masterclass in
How to
Navigate the
Messy
Connection
Between Work
and Value in
Your Team
Product Management Today
Empowering You to Empower Them:
Methods to Continue Keeping the End
User in Mind
Emily Murphy
Sr. Web Content Specialist,
Product Management Today
May 27, 2021
11:00 am PDT
2:00 pm EDT
7:00 pm BST
With
Dave West
CEO of Scrum.org
&

Who is Scrum.org ?
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TRAINING
CERTIFICATION
ONGOING
LEARNING
THOUGHT
LEADERSHIP
Helping people and
teams solve
complex problems
Ken Schwaber
Scrum.org Founder,
Chairman and
Co-creator of Scrum
Dave West
Scrum.org CEO,
@DavidJWest
Dave.west@scrum.org
Consistent Global Community

@ScrumDotOrg | @DavidJWest 6
Are We Moving Between Ages?
Inspired by : Carlota Perez ‘Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital’

Has COVID-19 Triggered the turning point?
Taken from https://www.tasktop.com/blog/covid-19-triggered-the-turning-point/

And That Would Mean Change…
Age of Oil and Mass
Production
VS
Age of Software and Digital
Long term investment
planning horizons
Short term investment planning
horizons
Project /Work Orientation Product / Customer alignment
Efficiency (Scarcity) Innovation and opportunity
(abundance)
Specialism of labor Cross functional teams
Process control Self organization and
decentralization
Management is king Rise of the creator

The New Business Change Cycle
Innovation
Time
Innovation
Time
Traditional Product Development Digital Product Development

And that means…
Realign around customers,
deliver frequently and be
agile because everything
will change….

Delivering value to customers is our number one priority

Isn’t that
what we
have been
doing
already?

• Then why does everyone involved have a different measure of success?
• Why are their no customer personas on the walls?
• Why is status measured by task complete?
• Why is are only a small group allowed to spend time with the customer?
• Why do backlogs include tasks?
• Why is velocity rather than value reported on?
• Why are their no customers at Sprint Reviews?
• Why is it so hard to define a Sprint Goal?
• Why….
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Yes…. But…

And that is even true for Scrum Projects
Work Backlog
No SprintGoal
Status of
Work
Daily
Mgt Review of
Progress
How do we
increase velocity
meeting
Definition of
Ready Gate
Release Process
Water – Scrum – Fall
Planning
Process

• Provides an environment where Self-Management can happen
• Gives team flexibility to deliver different solutions
• Space for innovation
• Extrinsic Motivation – Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose
• Improves customer relationship with team
• Leads to better outcomes
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Why is Working To Value So Important?

2020 Update to the Scrum Guide made value more explicit
Product Backlog
PBI
PBI
PBI
PBI
Product Goal
The addition of the Product Goal
Sprint Planning
Topic One
Why is this Sprint valuable?
Topic Two
What Can be Done this Sprint?
Topic Three
How will the chosen work get done?
Update to Sprint Planning

• Fund based on customers value streams
• Align teams to the value streams
• Put in place measures that are value rather than work based
• Set direction with a vision and goal(s)
• Build cross functional teams that include/align with the customer
• Allow and encourage transparency between the work and the
customer
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If You Are A Leader (or talking to them)

• Refine backlog items to answer the why
• Spend time creating personas for your work
• Invite customers to Sprint Reviews
• Engage customers during a Sprint to provide feedback
• Learn more about the customer at every opportunity
• Ask questions like ‘How does this help XXXXX ?’
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If you are a Team Member

Industrial
• Define requirements
• Work on defining plans
• Provide feedback and
support for development,
marketing, operations, etc..
• Work with QA and run the
final tests (UAT, etc.)
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And As A Product Professional…
Post Industrial
• Set vision and define
outcomes
• Collaborate on planning and
defining roadmap
• Teach, mentor and facilitate
discussions and learning
• Introduce measures that help
provide transparency

• Challenge how you think about your
work
• Step back from the details and think
about context
• Encourage everyone to think about
the customer (teach, share, coach)
• And slowly move the team and
organization towards the problem
your solving for a customer…
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It Does Not Have To Be A Revolution
Productivity = creating value and delivering
it to people.All other busywork is
unproductive fluff and should be minimized.
Steve Pavlina

Measurement changes to outcomes..
MarketValue
Organizational
Capability

CEO, Scrum.org
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scrum.org
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Dave West
To view more from the Empowering You to Empower Them Series visit
https://www.productmanagementtoday.com/webinar-series/12203/empowering-you-to-empower-them
Emily Murphy
Sr. Web Content Specialist, Product Management
Today

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