PGO Product Consulting worked with MyOptique Group to help their team deliver key commercial initiatives over a period of 9 months. The team’s knowledge of agile processes varied and an opportunity to improve their effectiveness was spotted.
To fix this we identified the key initiatives to deliver and joined one of Scrum teams as product owner to empower delivery.
Together we have been able to:
Enhance the team’s Scrum process understanding through prioritising relationships and affirming basic Scrum theory, values and practice:
Continue building trust and transparency with wider business through regular consistent communication, delivery of product increments and regular sprint reviews. Crucially being available for both the team and stakeholders has proved a major advantage.
Work on 6 initiatives designed to improve top-line metrics including:
Set a clearer vision for the future by:
On top of all these together we improved software quality as a result of giving the team space to breathe. A better understanding of the business drivers and agile processes means the team are more invested in what they build, and why they are building it. Improving estimation and forecasting means there is space to pay down technical debt and tackle bugs arising mid-sprint.
The development team deserve much credit for the way they responded to coaching and stepped up to make changes. The onus is now on them to engage with the wider business, continue communicating and maintaining transparency.
As a new product owner joins them they have a firm foundation to build on!