Influence, Product Ownership and unblocking the team - Fredrik Wendt

05/31/22 • 38 min

In the renewed Scrum Facilitators community podcast we talk about Scrum with practitioners in the community.
In this episode Sjoerd Kranendonk talks to Fredrik Wendt. Fredrik is a fellow Professional Scrum Trainer, coach & consultant working with ProAgile.se. We discuss the importance of knowing how to influence and invite change, as well as its relation to Product Ownership and how Product Owners should never walk alone.
Do you have a story to share? Or maybe a great Scrum question or dilemma you're currently struggling with? Get in touch with us at [email protected] and feel free to reach out to any Scrum Facilitator if you want to join our slack community.
Links and resources:

Non-Violent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg
- 3hr Video (long but very worthwhile) "some of the most powerful life changing stuff in the world"
- NVC Book & audiobook also recommended
The Phoenix Project - Kim, Behr, Spafford
Influencer: The Science of Leading Change - Grenny, Patterson, Maxfield, McMillan, Switzler
Pretotyping.org - Alberto Savoia
Leading the Revolution & Humanocracy - Gary Hamel
- Blog with brief explanation of Hamel's ladder/levels
Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki
Connect with Fredrik on Linkedin
Join the Agila Goteborg Meetup group

Are you working with Scrum/Agile and have similar stories and tips to share? Or do you know someone that you want to voluntell to be a guest? Reach out! [email protected]
Also check out our website, LinkedIn and Meetup

Non-Violent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg
- 3hr Video (long but very worthwhile) "some of the most powerful life changing stuff in the world"
- NVC Book & audiobook also recommended
The Phoenix Project - Kim, Behr, Spafford
Influencer: The Science of Leading Change - Grenny, Patterson, Maxfield, McMillan, Switzler
Pretotyping.org - Alberto Savoia
Leading the Revolution & Humanocracy - Gary Hamel
- Blog with brief explanation of Hamel's ladder/levels
Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki
Connect with Fredrik on Linkedin
Join the Agila Goteborg Meetup group

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Also, Wim and I wrote a blog post about this (well, mostly Wim actually) which can be found here.
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In the renewed Scrum Facilitators community podcast we talk about Scrum with practitioners in the community.
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Do you have a story to share? Or maybe a great Scrum question or dilemma you're currently struggling with? Get in touch with us at [email protected] and feel free to reach out to any Scrum Facilitator if you want to join our slack community.
Links and resources:

Where you can meet me or see me speak IRL or online:

June 2022: https://onlinescrummastersummit.com/
July 2022: www.mch2022.org
August 2022: www.agilenlean.eu
September 2022: agileopenholland.com

Scrum Facilitators Community podcast - Influence, Product Ownership and unblocking the team - Fredrik Wendt

Transcript

Steve Trapps00:00:06.330

Welcome to the scrum facilitators community podcast, the place for real conversations around Scrum.

Sjoerd Kranendonk00:00:13.949

Hi, and welcome at the scrum facilitators community Podcast. I'm very happy today to be here with Fredrik Wendt for this episode. And we're going to be chatting about all kinds of interesting stuff. And if the time is good for us, we'll also make a little bonus snack that we'll releas