Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast

Maria Skvortsova: The Yes-Man Product Owner and the Scrum Master Who Became a Proxy for the Proxy In this episode, we refer to User Story Mapping and the MoSCoW prioritization method. The Great Product Owner: Structure Over Gut Feeling — When a Well-Shaped Backlog Speaks for Itself 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 indicator of a good product owner is a well-shaped backlog — with priorities, with values, with efforts. You definitely know that you pull from the top, and it is the most valuable thing you should work on." — Maria Skvortsova   For Maria, the best product owners she's worked with share one trait: they bring structure. Not rigidity — structure. They use techniques like user story mapping to make priorities visual for everyone. They use value-effort matrices instead of gut feelings. They apply methods like MoSCoW to give the bac