Scrum Sprint Anti-Patterns (2) – The Interfering Product Owner (Hands-on Agile Webinar #7)

This Hands-on Agile mini-series addresses 12 familiar sprint anti-patterns: from gold-plating, delivery Y instead of X, to absenteeism, side-gigs, and organizing people instead of the flow of work.

The second episode covers the interfering Product Owner: You can change the sprint backlog—if the development team agrees—as the sprint backlog is not static. However, the Product Owner cannot single-handedly change it, for example, increase its scope. (The sprint cancellation is the exception to this rule if you want to consider abandoning the current sprint as a change of its sprint backlog.)

YOUR HOST: Stefan Wolpers