Comments on: Should Scrum Always Require the Product Owner to Attend the Sprint Retrospective Meeting? http://scrummethodology.com/should-scrum-always-require-the-product-owner-to-attend-the-sprint-retrospective-meeting/ Learn the Scrum Methodology Thu, 16 May 2013 19:18:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: MJ http://scrummethodology.com/should-scrum-always-require-the-product-owner-to-attend-the-sprint-retrospective-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-284253 MJ Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:35:32 +0000 http://scrummethodology.com/?p=537#comment-284253 ZD, I’m not completely following you. If you’re saying it’s sometimes beneficial and sometimes detrimental for the Product Owner to attend the entire retrospective, of course I agree. Thus, we don’t need to add a rule to Scrum for things better decided by teams and their Product Owners.

]]> By: ZD http://scrummethodology.com/should-scrum-always-require-the-product-owner-to-attend-the-sprint-retrospective-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-284117 ZD Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:18:19 +0000 http://scrummethodology.com/?p=537#comment-284117 What a relief it is to read the last line. There is no rule requiring Product Owners to attend the Sprint Retrospective meeting and I’ve found this working against ‘team spirit’.

I began setting up Retrospective meetings for teams around specific issues/stories inviting the Product Owner as a guest. I found after laying down ground rules, providing context and inviting team members to open up – the conversations that ensued were tremendously beneficial. Often, it is a relief to be heard within the same room.

The team I’m working with now was inviting Product Owners for a limited time (15 mins). This has changed recently and the Product Owners are now asked to attend the full session.

The benefit is simple: All owners and decision makers within the team are in the room which helps identify what we all can do to improve our work and reward each other.

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