Eren ÖZDEMİR

Quick tips about sprint goals: -While defining sprint goal, the team needs to align with company strategies, to do that we need scaling approaches -business owner and POs needs to work together to define a sprint goal -To follow just sprint goal is not enough, teams need to follow the quarterly goals like product goal or PI objectives or OKRs

The answer is easy; before the any tools, focus on transparency within a team to see the history, collaboration with team members to understand all perspectives , long lived team to use the experience. Communication is the best tool to do that

While we are working with project status reports, improving agility is not possible because of transparency issues. Because of that, we need to create automated reports and not just focus on velocity, team performance, etc. The goal needs to be; -measure outcomes -follow some metrics to improve the way of working

Scrum of scrum is a good practice just to align within the teams but for scaling, we need different practices too like lean portfolio management. Because of that; use the scrum of scrums to manage the dependencies with the other team by weekly (PO sync, Scrum master sync, etc) but be open to learn the other techniques to scale

The best way to manage the portfolio communication is to start with “organize around value stream”. That means; minimising the dependencies to create value for your customer. Lots of companies are focusing on managing their portfolio with Project Management Offices. If the PMO works with silos, they will focus on managing dependencies with the departments and people. So before the vision definition, we need to start with a definition of the value streams, and then organise around them.

Project reports are always manipulated by project managers, and this problem is not with project managers, the problem is with the system which we create for reporting area. If a PM reports a lot of issues, the stakeholders or management will blame the project manager. What is the solution for reporting while working with stakeholders? The solution is information radiators, which means; that if someone needs any project reports; before the call PM, can learn the information with dashboard reports a transparent. The most important topic; is active stakeholder participation! Attend the review meetings, work with a team, and communicate with the product owner… these actions will help us to be a team and will improve our transparency.