Navigating Conflict: Five Big Insights from the workshop ‘Address the Elephant’

12/20/19 • 10 min

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On November 22, we had the huge pleasure of hosting a 1-day workshop on navigating tension and conflict in groups with Julie Huffaker, Karen Dawson, and Daniel Steinhöfer. Attended by 55 participants, we explored how instead of ‘resolving’ conflict — which often isn’t possible — we can navigate conflict and tension more productively instead. Rather than making this a very theoretical workshop, we opted for a hugely interactive and experiential experience.
In this episode, we capture the five biggest insights we took from the workshop.
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Actual stakeholders? or just your audience?

This episode is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘Zombie Scrum Survival Guide’. It’s our way of delivering small increments and involving our stakeholders. So we’d love to hear your feedback, encouragements and wild ideas. You can also listen to us reading this post here. Sign up here to stay informed and provide feedback on our writing.

What makes someone a "stakeholder"? It’s such a simple question that you can’t help but wonder why we’re even asking it. The Scrum Framework relies heavily on involving stakeholders. And for good reason. You need them to validate your assumptions and to determine what is valuable (and what isn’t).
We’ve visited Sprint Reviews where all the ‘stakeholders’ present were internal to the organization; people from marketing and sales, an internal product manager and an opinionated colleague. None of them were either using or paying for the product and its development. We’ve found that not included the right stakeholders is one of the primary causes of Zombie Scrum.
In this podcast we share what is necessary for someone to actually be a stakeholder. We also offer three questions to help you find them.
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