Daily Demo to the Product Owner
This post is part of 101 ideas for agile teams.
Context
Your Product Owner does not know what the developers built well enough. The product owner has difficulties to show the new features during the Sprint Review.
The developers wish earlier feedback from the product owner because there is a lot of task switching due to getting back at tasks that were “finished”.
Action
Every work day after lunch, the product owner walks over to the developers and asks what they can show her today. The developers show both user stories — or backlog items — that were finished since yesterday and ongoing work (just where you are today).
The product owner is much better informed and can give feedback early enough so that the developers can adapt before showing the new features in the Sprint Review.
What you gain
The product owner is much better informed about the current state of the product.
The developers get feedback much earlier than the Sprint Review.
The developers can adapt to the feedback given in the same Sprint: no defering into the next Sprint and less task switching.
How to strengthen
Discuss in the Daily Scrum, what you are probably going to show today.
Risks
The team can have a bad feeling about even more meetings. Therefore keep the daily demo short. Focus on the feedback. Ask for the product owner’s opinion in the next retrospective.
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