Build a strong alliance with your Product Owner, one conversation at a time.

You and your product owner both care deeply about the product and the team.

But sometimes collaboration feels harder than it needs to be: priorities clash, roles blur, and tension builds.

This free guide will help you reset your collaboration and move from friction to flow.

One calm, honest conversation at a time.

When partnership turns into a power struggle, everyone feels it.

You're not alone. Many Scrum Masters say their biggest challenges lie not with the team, but with their collaboration with the Product Owner.

The Canvas helps you create:

- Shared clarity about roles, goals, and decisions

- Healthy tension that drives progress instead of frustration

- Trust and rhythm that make collaboration feel natural again

Because you don't need authority to lead, you need alignment, trust, and presence.

What you’ll get and learn

- A one-page Partnership Canvas to structure one powerful alignment talk
- Guiding questions to open up honest, calm conversation
- Reflection prompts to define one small next step that strengthens your partnership

Why this matters

As a Scrum Master, you’re often right in the middle between the team’s needs, the Product Owner’s priorities, and the organization’s expectations.

And while collaboration with your team usually finds its flow, the connection with your Product Owner can sometimes feel…complicated.

That’s where this tool comes in.
The Partnership Canvas helps you have one focused conversation that builds trust, creates shared clarity, and sets the foundation for true partnership.

“Behind every great team is a strong

SM–PO partnership.”

You’ll get a one-page reflection tool — The Partnership Canvas —
to bring clarity, trust, and rhythm to your collaboration with your Product Owner.

Download your free Partnership Canvas and take the first step toward a partnership built on trust and shared purpose.

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Hi, I’m Tamara Koning.

I don’t teach Agile frameworks and I don’t teach Servant Leadership as a theory.

I help Scrum Masters experience what it means to lead with presence, clarity and influence. I grow Scrum Masters from the inside out.

I’ve seen many Scrum Masters lose energy, not because they don’t know how to facilitate, coach or guide…but because they stop feeling their impact. Often, the partnership with the Product Owner is where that breaks, or where it begins to grow.

That’s why I created "The Partnership Canvas". Not as another template but as a lens to help you see your collaboration differently.

It supports one focused, honest conversation that helps you strengthen trust, align expectations, and build a partnership that energizes both of you. > Calmly, > Clearly an >> Together.