Topic Title:
Managing large numbers of stakeholders and products with a small team
Initiator:
Carrie Waddel
Participants:
Erik Tandberg
Travis Thompson
Cindy Covertry
Vanessa Smith
Connie Pope
Tami Volkert
Stephanie Ruffian
Sarah Urriste
Christopher Martinez
Discussion Highlights:
- How can we manage multiple customers, especially when there is sensitive data?
- Use codewords!
- Invite customers to see backlog and help determine priority
- Managing Stakeholders with disparate needs
- Get them talking to one another
Ideas for Action/Next Steps:
- Internal “Dress Rehearsal” of planning and refinement meetings, then have the “real one” with stakeholders present
- Include agenda in Review meeting invites to encourage attendance
- Shorten Reviews in general, keep them higher level
- Tag which items in a sprint we intend to demo
- Share the attendance list