From Staying in Your Line to The Connected Product Owner - Two Patterns Every Scrum Master Should Recognize | Gunnar Fischer

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Gunnar Fischer: From Staying in Your Line to The Connected Product Owner - Two Patterns Every Scrum Master Should Recognize The Great Product Owner: The Connected PO Who Makes Information Flow 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: . "This Product Owner didn't need to be the smartest person in the room, but everybody knew, okay, this is a really smart guy." - Gunnar Fischer The best Product Owner Gunnar ever worked with was what he calls the connected PO . This person had a deep professional network - inside the company and with the customer - and could talk to anyone: a colleague, the client, a brand-new team member they were onboarding. They were socially sharp without being shallow. They could disagree clearly, even harshly, and then turn around and say, "now let's talk about something else," with kindness. When this PO said no, it was a no people respected; when they said yes, it was a yes people trusted, because everyone knew the PO could push back. The praise behind their back matched the praise in the room.

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