YDS: How Does a Scrum Master and Product Owner Collaborate?

Today's question is all about the relationship between the Scrum Master and the Product Owner. Specifically, how do they work together and communicate on a day-to-day basis? All of this and more are discussed in today's episode of Your Daily Scrum with Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley.

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[kensaiyeahyeah]

Right on time boys! My PO and I just had a conversation on how to improve our collaberation 👍

[lenalena]

Thank you so much for your videos and explanations! ✊🏻
I have a similar topic, but not with a Scrum role: How do a Scrum master and a department lead work together? I am the SM and my teammates all come from different departments such as frontend, backend, testing ... and all have different department leads who want to intervene and determine. Everyone even has their own daily stand-up with their department lead and "the other" team (department), and I have to explain to my teammates why they belong to two different teams (Scrum + department)...

[dav]

So helpful - I now need to go and ‘stop, collaborate, and come along side my PO’

[lenalena]

And can I raise a second question and video-idea: who is responsible for monitoring productive stage? 🤩 In my company the management says "you build it you run it" so the teams need to monitor themselves... Thank you 🤩

[supergirls]

Collaboration is the key (via communication)...

[amymartinez]

Love the video. Couldn’t agree more that the PO/SM relationship is a “ride or die” relationship. What advice can you give to a SM who has done everything they can to establish trust and support with their PO, and the PO completely shuts the SM out when they ask questions like, “Is the juice worth the squeeze?” I.e., the PO responds with, “Quit swimming in my lane.”

[indianmaakan]

Nice conversation, What is the book name you mentioned about 'Openess' please ?

[ayandas]

In my current position, the question reads out as "How do I collaborate with myself?"

[pentzzsolt]

How does a Product Owner compare to a Business Analyst?

[MrShairKhan]

Should a product owner be predictable?

[naterciagomes]

The idea of collaboration is quite "cute" to hear, in my situation my PO assumes that we are supposed to fight more than collaborate because of the nature of our roles (PO representing business interest, SM representing team's interest)

Just by writing I understand now the mistake we are making. But how can we change this belief?

[hvitis]

Lots of bs. No wonder so many burnouts in this job