How do you facilitate user story selection in a way that the most valuable stories are chosen without overruling the Developers prerogative to select the Sprint Backlog?
If the Developers are involved early enough in either user story selection (preferably by jointly creating the stories with the Product Owner) or product discovery, a Scrum Master will probably not need to provide any guidance to see that the most valuable stories are chosen.
If a Developers resort to cherry picking — choosing user stories only to satisfy personal preferences — during Sprint Planning, the Product Backlog refinement process needs to be seriously inspected. In all likelihood the Product Owner is probably focusing on Product Backlog items that are not maximizing customer value.
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