How can a Scrum Master contribute to Sprint Planning in a way that enables the Scrum Team to work only on the most valuable user stories?
Ans: It is the prerogative of the Product Owner to define the business objective of an upcoming Sprint by identifying and ranking the most valuable user stories in the Product Backlog, and it is the duty of the Scrum Master to support the Product Owner in this. Pursuant, a suitable way for a Scrum Master to support a Scrum Team’s strive to work on the most valuable Product Backlog items is:
- To ensure that the Scrum Team is involved in the product discovery process at an early stage;
- To ensure that the Product Backlog refinement process is well practiced by both the Developers members and the Product Owner; and
- To ensure that all user stories are created in a collaborative effort between the Product Owner and the Developers members (the goal being a shared understanding of the user stories and thus joint ownership).
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