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The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

By : Stacia Viscardi
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The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

By: Stacia Viscardi

Overview of this book

A natural and difficult tension exists between a project team (supply) and its customer (demand); a professional ScrumMaster relaxes this tension using the Scrum framework so that the team arrives at the best possible outcome."The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook" is a practical, no-nonsense guide to helping you become an inspiring and effective ScrumMaster known for getting results.This book goes into great detail about why it seems like you're fighting traditional management culture every step of the way. You will explore the three roles of Scrum and how, working in harmony, they can deliver a product in the leanest way possible. You'll understand that even though there is no room for a project manager in Scrum, there are certain “management” aspects you should be familiar with to help you along the way. Getting a team to manage itself and take responsibility is no easy feat; this book will show you how to earn trust by displaying it and inspiring courage in a team every day."The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook" will challenge you to dig deep within yourself to improve your mindset, practices, and values in order to build and support the very best agile teams.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Scrum stops the resource shell game


Walk down any street in NYC and you're likely to see someone taking people's money in the shell game—a quick-handed guy (called a thimblerig) moves shells around while a poor guy has to guess which shell the ball is under. The sucker will never be right, because the shell game is a fraudulent game—it tricks players into feeling confident so that the thimblerig can take their money. I see ETT resourcing as such fraud!

When project crunch time is near, managers respond by shuffling around people. This shuffling gives the appearance of efficiency, and since money is exchanged—in the form of wages and budgets—this is fraud. The resource shell game hides the real problem, which is that the company is trying to do too much with too few people. The ScrumMaster's job is to make the gross imbalance between demand and supply visible, and put an end to the thimblerigging. One place to begin is by helping the business identify its strategy and prioritize its initiatives...