12 Tips for Product Owners who want better performance from their Scrum Teams

As Product Owner, I want better performance from my Scrum team.

Jeff Sutherland observed that teams in the 95th percentile were 10 times more productive than average teams (50th percentile). He created Scrum to enable all teams to recreate those conditions that enable top performance.

How do you really get better performance from your Scrum team? It’s not about cracking the whip. That is usually counterproductive. It’s about creating the right conditions. In my Product Owner course, we look at the many tools available to Product Owner to enable better and quicker results from the development teams. On the saat-network company site, I have posted 12 tips (well, 13 actually) for how Product Owners can improve Scrum Team performance. Read the whole article…