Paul Goddard - Product Owners, The Primary Story Tellers in Scrum Teams

Paul Goddard returns to our Scrum user group to talk to us about Product Owners and their role creating stories for the team.

A user story is only as good as the conversation it generates. User Stories a major part of many an agile team’s process, but has the word “story” become meaningless? This interactive workshop aims to prove how a well-told story can increase engagement and collaboration between a product owner and scrum development team. This session will give attendees the chance to create and be part of many stories in small groups. Using narrative techniques from improv theatre and primary school teaching, this session aims to help attendees enjoy ‘telling’ a story instead of just writing them on index cards.

About Paul

Paul is the founder of Agilify, has been an active Certified Scrum Trainer since 2006, and also became only the fourth UK-based Certified Scrum Coach in 2011.

From developer to ScrumMaster, and from ScrumMaster to Agile Coach he has been working with agile development teams since 2000.

Paul was part of the coaching team which took on one of the largest agile transformations to date in a major UK telecoms company in 2003 and since then has been training and coaching other organizations, teams and individuals across the UK and Europe.

You can follow Paul on Twitter (http://twitter.com/PaulKGoddard) or add him to your circles onGoogle+ (http://gplus.to/PaulKGoddard). Paul also keeps his blog (http://www.agilify.co.uk/scrum-master-diary) here, where you can read about more of his experiences, thoughts and observations as a Scrum trainer and coach.