Budapest Agile Meetup Group

Many organizations feel the pull of competing forces: legacy processes clash with emerging ones, and people end up talking past each other. In this session, Sandor Hibsch will help you surface the invisible mental models that drive those tensions and show why they produce predictable, counter‑productive outcomes.
What you’ll experience

1. Diagnostic exercise – Together we map the “vectors” (assumptions, habits, power dynamics) that are pulling your organization apart.
2. Shared insights – Identify which of these patterns are common across organizations and which are unique to yours.
3. Actionable “therapies” – Practical techniques (facilitation frameworks, boundary‑setting rituals, feedback loops) that turn diagnosis into a roadmap for building shared understanding and a sustainable, collaborative way of working.

Take‑aways

• A visual map of the mental models that sabotage agile adoption.
• A toolbox of concrete interventions you can start applying immediately.
• A clearer path from fragmented conversations to a unified, high‑performing team.

Who should attend
Agile coaches, Scrum Masters, product owners, engineering leads, and anyone responsible for guiding teams through cultural change.

In this session, led by Tom Molnár we'll unpack the 6 misunderstood PO stances — the anti-patterns that quietly erode value — and contrast them with the 6 effective stances that make a Product Owner truly impactful.
What we'll cover:
❌ Misunderstood stances (anti-patterns):

• Clerk — just adds everything to the backlog, no vision or decisions
• Story Writer — focuses only on writing user stories
• Project Manager — focuses on deadlines and output instead of value
• Manager — manages people instead of the product
• Subject Matter Expert — gets lost in detailed expertise
• Gatekeeper — becomes a bottleneck; everything goes through them

These aren't value-creating behaviors — they're distortions of the role.
✅ Effective stances:

• Visionary — defines a clear product vision and goals; focuses on the future
• Collaborator — actively works with the team and stakeholders
• Customer Representative — brings in user needs; explains the "why"
• Decision Maker — makes fast decisions → faster time-to-market
• Experimenter — thinks in hypotheses; validates instead of assuming
• Influencer — creates alignment across the organization

A good PO isn't just one of these — it's a combination of all.
🎯 Key takeaway: According to Scrum, the PO's goal is to maximize value. Many organizations misunderstand this. The goal is to recognize when you slip into a bad stance and shift back.
Who should attend: Product Owners, Scrum Masters, agile coaches, engineering leads, and anyone working with or alongside POs who wants to raise the bar on how the role is understood and practiced.

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An in person, English speaking session. No video feed will be provided.
Please note, that we dont have catering for the event.

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