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What not to do as a Scrum Master | Denniz Dönmez

Published: July 13, 2020, 10:05 a.m.

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When Denniz joined this team, he observed, that even if the Product Owner was close to the customer, the team had little to no contact with the users of the product. He worked on preparing a workshop that had a hidden agenda: get the developers to understand the users. However, that didn’t turn out so well, and it taught Denniz an important lesson. Listen in to learn how to not organize a workshop with users, and what Denniz learned from that failure that helped him be a better Scrum Master. 

 

About Denniz Dönmez

Denniz has both huge academic and practical experience. He studied agile teams for his PhD at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) before becoming a Scrum Master and freelance consultant in 2016. Denniz believes the key to becoming more agile is to establish what he calls “enabling structures.”

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