Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast: Agile storytelling from the trenches

From My Task to Our Work in Agile Teams | Oluyomi Emmanuel

October 6, 2026·14 min
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Oluyomi Emmanuel: From My Task to Our Work in Agile Teams Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes.   "We shifted their thinking from my task to our work." - Oluyomi Emmanuel   Oluyomi describes a destructive pattern many Scrum Masters will recognize: local responsibility inside a supposedly shared team. The team looked collaborative during Scrum events, but once the meetings ended, developers, testers, and reviewers behaved like separate specialists. Developers finished coding and moved on. Testers waited for the right context or environment. Pull requests sat in review. Everyone looked busy, and everyone could explain their own behavior, but work was not reaching Done. The board already showed the queues, yet visibility alone did not change behavior because the team still spoke in individual language: "my development is finished," "testing belongs to QA," and "my task is done." The change started in a retrospective, where the team stopped asking who caused the delay and began asking where work stopped flowing. They tested small experiments: swarming around items waiting in testing, reviewing aging work together, and avoiding new starts when existing work needed help. The daily standup became a place to ask a better question: what does this item still need before value can be delivered?   In this segment, we talk about flow, team ownership<span style= "font-size: 11p

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