Power of early and timely feedback | Courtesy — Sprint Reviews

Unhappy and dissatisfied stakeholders definitely disturbs your harmony and peace of mind as a Developer (Scrum Team member).

At times, your stakeholders might start to lose trust and undermine your capabilities.

Not just for a Product Owner, but for the entire Scrum Team — Stakeholder engagement is critical.

Without any explanation further, everyone agrees the Sprint Review is one crucial event for involving your Stakeholders.

So long as your Sprint Reviews are focusing on the following aspects, there is no need for you to enroll to a course on Stakeholder Management:

• Leveraging the Sprint Review to decide what to do next
• Leveraging the Sprint Review to share obstacles to delivering value to create a common understanding
• Leveraging the Sprint Review to ask for feedback on the (potential) value delivered

If you are still not there but struggling with a whole lot of excuses, it is time to have a conversation around them and figure out a way to improve your feedback cycle with Sprint Reviews.

Remember, the best way to keep your stakeholders happy is to stop managing them and by working together on the same team.

Disagreements are easier to resolve when everyone is working towards the same Goal and surfacing challenge(s) around the progress made quite early and often.