The Royal Well Tavern, Cheltenham, UKOur first pubcast comes from The Royal Well Tavern in Cheltenham, UK. Topics include: How a recent Scrum user group that Paul attended was inspiring and nourishing * Why organisations seem to find it difficult to bring themselves to pay for coaching * What success might be for an organisation transitioning to agile * Whether doubling productivity at the expense of team happiness would be deemed success * Whether Product Owners should or could be a motivating force for agile teamsIs it possible to motivate a Scrum team without a product owner? * How do you motivate a team doing a boring project like a database re-write? * How children’s cricket and rugby coaching apply to agile teams * How parents encouragement may undermine teamwork and how this might be analogous to senior management influences * How important and/or dangerous is charisma in a product owner? * Does the scrum team have to like the product owner? * If you have a great product owner, do you need a ScrumMaster? *

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