Talk: Cake Or Death: Are You Giving Your Team Real Choices?

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Title:	Cake Or Death: Are You Giving Your Team Real Choices?
Short synopsis:	One of the key tenets of Agile is self-organizing teams who choose their work, but sometimes that choice comes down to whether they're pulling something off the top of the backlog, or not (and not isn't really an option!). What would it look like if developers, designers, QA, and other members of a scrum team started choosing their work at the roadmap level? Max size: 500 chars
Long synopsis (optional):	Sometimes, the Agile principle of teams choosing their work is limited to a scrum team committing to stories in a sprint backlog, and team members pulling the next story to work on from that backlog during the sprint. If your power to choose is restricted to do the next story in the queue or… don’t, is it really a choice? What would happen if an entire scrum team got involved in making the bigger, roadmap-level choices about a product? Would high-level discussions get bogged down with technical details, or would dependencies and risks be more visible from the start? Would it be too difficult to balance the additional perspectives and input, or would it lead to valuable insight on what to build in order to achieve strategic goals? We’ll talk about what the process of bringing your scrum team into roadmapping sessions might look like, how to overcome common challenges with conflicting viewpoints, and what you can gain from this approach. I’ll also share examples of how this experiment went with teams I’ve worked on. Equipped with this information, participants will be able to decide if opening up their roadmapping and strategic decision-making process is right for their team. Max size: 5000 chars
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