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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

Summary


You must first understand the reasons behind planning in order to run effective planning sessions. There are meeting mechanics that you as ScrumMaster should follow—game rules of sorts provided by the legacy Scrum literature—and yet even more importantly, you should strive to create and sustain a certain spirit in your meetings. Planning meeting are not crystal balls into which you or the team can look into and predict the future of a project; rather they are the reserved space and time in which a team envisions the possibilities, gets excited about the outcomes, and establishes urgency by acknowledging that only so much can be done in one small time box. Sprint plans are the result of detailed discussions between team members as they figure out how they'll deliver quality results by the end of the sprint. In Chapter 4, Sprint! Visible, Collaborative, and Meaningful Work, we will explore how a good plan supports a team as they work together during their sprint, and how plans change...