Agile and Rovo - How to Rovo agent can help Product owners and Scrum masters

[Matteo Vecchiato]

Hi everyone,

I would like to collect experiences and technical suggestions on how Rovo can effectively help on Agile projects.

1. Any Scrum master or product owner  using Rovo?
2. How to configure an agent that acts as an assistant for Agile projects?
3. What is your opinion about AI in Agile?

I look forward to hearing from you!

Kind regards 

[Israel Padilla]

Hello, Matteo,

I'm a Product Manager who used to work as a Product Owner, and I've created several Custom Rovo Agents. One of them, in particular, focuses on a topic Product Owners should dedicate some effort to: product backlog splitting.

The Agent instructions know everything about my Jira organisation custom work item hierarchy, and it applies INVEST and splitting best practices to recommend how to best organise your backlog. The user can chat with this agent from the Jira project and get the context from there, or share the Jira Project key or URL for another project. It's helpful for Junior Product Owners struggling to fully use the Jira backlog hierarchy and not always starting super down with only stories and sub-tasks as huge chunks of work that cannot fit an iteration, and will probably have plenty of dependencies.

The Custom Rovo Agent description is:
Transform Jira work item splitting from art to science using INVEST criteria & contextual intelligence. Analyses complete Jira work item hierarchy, synthesises comprehensive descriptions from parent/child, and optimises splitting strategies while preserving user value & minimising dependencies. Target Users: Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Agile Teams

And the conversation starters are:
Analyse this Epic and suggest splitting based on parent/child relationships
Generate a description of this work item, including all suggested children
Decompose this complex work item to preserve user value and minimise dependencies

[Matteo Vecchiato]

Hi @Israel Padilla

Fantastic, thank you for your response!

[Fabio Racobaldo _Catworkx_]

Very interesting suggestion @Israel Padilla and thanks for this useful question @Matteo Vecchiato 

[Vlad from Teamline]

I can see how Rovo makes sense for product owners (backlog prep, grooming support, etc.), but for scrum masters it’s still pretty unclear. Would love to see a real use case shared here. Thanks for opening the topic though.

[Kelly Stocker]

@Israel Padilla You should share this with Nikhil! He's collecting cool use cases: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-AI-Rovo-articles/Gift-Card-Opp-Did-you-build-a-cool-automation-or-agent-Nikhil/ba-p/3099625

[Israel Padilla]

@Kelly Stocker I did today, yes. We discussed some of my custom agents' use cases and ideas.