It is the team who does all the work. Team is self-organising. Team decides and plans. So what is the role of scrum master? Is it a full time role? How is it different from a project manager? Can a project lead or manager be a scrum master? It is probably the least understood and the most abused role in scrum. Let's explore these points in details further on April 10, 3:00 PM.
3 Roles in Scrum
Role of scrum master
Challenges of a scrum master
Skills, Knowledge & mindset required
Full time or part time?
Future career path of scrum master
Benefits:
Uncover the true role of a scrum master which is that of a facilitator, protector, negotiator and a coach.
Understand the true meaning of coaching.
Learn how scrum master can coach the team.
Understand the skills, knowledge and mindset required as a scrum master.
Perform better as a scrum master by getting introduced to some magical techniques and fad words like gamestorming, innovation games and visual thinking to facilitate collaborative decision making.
Learn points which you can use to make people understand the vital role a scrum master plays.
Appreciate the difference between project manager and a scrum master.
Learn who can be a good scrum master.
Attend the webinar and separate yourself from the crazy herd of people blindly accepting or discarding the role of scrum master!!
3. Agenda
• 3 Roles in Scrum
• Role of scrum master
• Challenges of a scrum master
• Skills, Knowledge & mindset required
• Full time or part time?
• Future career path of scrum master
8. Challenges
Skills & Qualities Required To Be A Good Scrum Mater Are Not
Taught Anywhere. Ex: Coaching, Facilitating, Collective
Decision Making, Empowering, Servant Leadership etc…
23. Daily Stand Ups
• Listening OVER take notes
• Sign Up OVER assigning task
• Get called up OVER calling team to attend
• Step back OVER owning the stand up
• Re-plan OVER status
• Zooming out OVER zooming in
• Walk the wall OVER round robin
• 4 questions OVER 3 (Can someone help me in ____ ?
)
• Make stand ups valuable OVER ice cream meters
24. Sprint Planning
• Story grooming during previous sprint OVER sprint
planning – part 1
• Innovation games OVER requirement analysis
• Team drives OVER you driving the meeting
• Fist of 5 OVER poker cards
• Commitment OVER capacity
• Delivering committed value OVER completing
committed stories
• Stretch and facilitate OVER being timid or over-
protecting
25. Sprint Review
• Making sure that PO/BA/Users attend OVER booking
rooms and setup
• Challenge PO/BA/Users OVER challenging team
• Let team answer questions OVER representing /
protecting them
• Seek change OVER welcome change
• Delight customer OVER satisfy customer
• Team defines done OVER you
• Pizzas OVER burgers
26. Sprint Retro
• Safety check OVER assuming
• Happiness meter OVER employee satisfaction
• Timeline OVER blank memory
• Gamestorming OVER Brainstorming
• Collective visual thinking OVER individual black box
thinking
• Collaborative decisions OVER individual priorities
• 1 doable action item OVER 10 achievable
• Attack tolerated OVER just probing what is needed
• Appreciative enquiry OVER feedback
27. During The Sprint
• Gemba walk OVER waiting in chair
• Futurespectives OVER retrospectives
• Achievement wall OVER ice cream meters
• Coach individual OVER team
• Bug bash OVER bug count
• Team updates artifacts OVERS you updating
• You report OVER team reporting
• Celebrate fed-ex days OVER pink day or rose day
28. Full Time Or Part Time?
Do I need to clarify more?
31. Scrum Master Is A Career
Or Rather Career Maker, Career Changer
It is THE future.
Once you have the skills and qualities of scrum master
mentioned here, believe me, even sky is NOT a limit.