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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

When physical taskboards and conversations aren't enough


Let's face it, not everybody in the company will walk by the team area, study the physical taskboard, ask questions, and so on. For many, this pie-in-the-sky Agile just won't exist (or won't immediately exist). Perhaps the project is just too large to scale up these face-to-face conversations and bug-in-a-jar visibility? How does a ScrumMaster help the souls who won't leave their desks, or who cannot be there in person?

Invite stakeholders to sprint reviews

As mentioned in Chapter 4, sprint reviews are wonderful opportunities for stakeholders to learn what the team have implemented, as well as to give their feedback. Work with the product owner to figure out which stakeholders should be invited, and send the invitations early so that folks can get this important meeting on their calendars.

In lieu of (or in addition to!) sprint review attendance, perhaps it's possible to set up a sandbox environment so that stakeholders can at least preview...