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The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

By : Stacia Viscardi
Book Image

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

Chapter 4. Sprint! Visible, Collaborative, and Meaningful Work

I once trained a large company that has an office near Nice, France. On a nice sunny day, in between training courses, I decided to take my rental Peugeot into the mountains over to the Cote d'Azur. While I was driving, I noticed this old medieval city across the canyon and I immediately thought, "I must go there!". So I navigated my way to Tourrettes-sur-Loup via a Hertz Neverlost GPS that spoke French (and because I don't parlez vous Français, I couldn't change the settings to English!). Nevertheless, I finally arrived at the medieval city, and walking along the old, crooked, narrow streets, I fell in love—feeling like I had stepped back in time. I found it interesting that for such a beautiful, quaint, quiet, and peaceful place full of artists, it had quite a turbulent history. The city, strongly fortified by plunging cliffs and stone buildings nested high atop a hill, provided a stellar vantage point highly desirable to various...