The Over-Communicator vs. The Over-Ambitious—Two Patterns Every Scrum Master Should Recognize | Aliu Adewale
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Aliu Adewale discusses two important patterns for Scrum Masters: the Over-Communicator and the Over-Ambitious.
Aliu Adewale: The Over-Communicator vs. The Over-Ambitious—Two Patterns Every Scrum Master Should Recognize Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes . The Great Product Owner: The Over-Communicator Who Negotiated Every Scope Change Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes . "This is a guy who over-communicates everything." - Aliu Adewale The best Product Owner Aliu ever worked with did something simple that almost no PO does. Before each refinement, he'd pull up the Jira board, record himself walking through every user story, explaining acceptance criteria, talking through the end goal one ticket at a time—and post the video to the team a day or two ahead. This was before Loom existed. The result: refinement felt less like discovery and more like "walking it back" —the team arrived already prepared, with real questions, ready to engage. He still attended every refinement and never missed a comment in Jira…
People in this episode
Host: Vasco Duarte
Guest: Aliu Adewale
Topics covered
- Scrum Master
- Agile
- communication
- negotiation
- product ownership
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Jira
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