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How can an agile team working on a new product ensure alignment with external stakeholders?

The correct answer is B. Conduct story-mapping exercises to clarify deliverables and release priorities. Story mapping is a collaborative workshop technique where the team and stakeholders walk through user activities to build a shared understanding of the product's scope, priority, and phased delivery. It directly produces a visual alignment artifact that clarifies what will be…

Submitted by tom_us· Apr 18, 2026Stakeholder Engagement

Question

How can an agile team working on a new product ensure alignment with external stakeholders?

Options

  • AAsk the product owner to provide a detailed product specification document
  • BConduct story-mapping exercises to clarify deliverables and release priorities
  • CHold a kick-off meeting to assign roles and responsibilities
  • DWork with the scrum master and stakeholders to ensure agile principles are followed

How the community answered

(34 responses)
  • A
    9% (3)
  • B
    74% (25)
  • C
    15% (5)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

Story mapping is a collaborative workshop technique where the team and stakeholders walk through user activities to build a shared understanding of the product's scope, priority, and phased delivery. It directly produces a visual alignment artifact that clarifies what will be delivered and when-making it ideal for engaging external stakeholders. A detailed specification document (A) is a waterfall artifact. A kick-off meeting for roles (C) is a one-time event that doesn't address ongoing delivery alignment. Relying on the scrum master to enforce agile principles (D) doesn't address the stakeholder-alignment problem directly.

Topics

#Story mapping#Stakeholder engagement#Product vision#Prioritization

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