Product Owner at the Retrospective?

Hi,

Sorry if this is a bit of a basic question, but would you ordinarily have a product owner at a retrospective?
My worry would be that the development team would feel inhibited by the product owner’s presence.

Regards,
Anthony

I am too seeking for the same, anyways if I found any I’ll definitely tell you.

Hm, from my perspective a PO is part of the Scrum Team and the retrospective is for the whole team to improve their way of working – regardless if it’s on a technical level or on a team level. So if your team is not happy to involve the PO to the retrospective you have Scrum group in place but not a Scrum Team. So try to find out why the team doesn’t want the PO to attend the retrospective. And try to make them feel and act like a team. Something easy to do here is to organize that the PO is sitting in the same room as the team and the SM. Does it make sense? Hope it helps a bit.

Best, Björn