Horstesse during failure and acknowledging failure
Failure can be a stepping stone to success. It can also break some people and not have them try again.
Vera presented “How to fail like a Scrum master” at the Agile speakers special meetup “Wine & Speak”.
I liked the way on how she started with the opinion of ChatGPT on her speech 🙂
I liked the way she used the Scrum values to derive value from failure.
I especially like the way she described how she learnt “Respect” using the character “Horstresse” who is stressed during the failure and then learns to acknowledge the failure with a calmness.
Vera presenting at Agile Speakers
Vera is a teetotaller but she still managed to bring and non-alcoholic Sekt that she presented and tasted with the rest of the group
Once you listen to Vera, you know that failure is not going to keep you down and you will learn to derive value from your failures!
We had three product owners with 10000 Euros each:
Ineke from Marketing
Mikaela from Sales
Vera from IT
The aim of the game is to understand the different perspectives of the players they have regarding the business value of the features.
I like the fact that you can play it with simple materials like a flipchart, markers and post-its.
In the first round, two of the product owners voted with a bigger budget for their own features. Predictive analytics (maybe because it sounds clever) got 12500 Eur, followed by intuitive UI with 11000 Eur and then massive parallel processing with 6500 Eur.
Product
Ineke
Mikaela
Vera
Total
Intuitive UI
5000
3500
2500
11000
Predictive Analytics
3000
5000
4500
12500
Massive Parallel Processing
2000
1500
3000
6500
We then posed the following questions and discussed it with the product owners:
Which feature helps to generate new Business?
Which feature helps to maintain existing Business?
Which feature improves the efficiency of internal processes?
Product
Ineke
Mikaela
Vera
Total
Intuitive UI
4000
3500
5000
12500
Predictive Analytics
5000
5000
3000
13000
Massive Parallel Processing
1000
1500
2000
4500
After the questions were asked the focus of all product owners moved towards predictive analytics because they felt that it was the feature which could bring value for new and existing Business and also improve the efficiciency of internal processes.
We managed to complete this game in 30 to 45 minutes and do two rounds of budgeting.
What the product owners took back with them was the ease with which budgeting rounds could be done when the right questions are asked for the features surrounding a product.
I enjoyed the Business Value Poker game for its simplicity and improved collaborative thinking across multiple product owners.
