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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 7. Scrum Values Expose Fear, Dysfunction, and Waste

By reciting the Hippocratic Oath, physicians all over the world swear to ethically and honestly practice medicine. The original version of the Oath, penned in the late fifth century B.C., has changed drastically throughout the centuries—various groups of physicians at various points in history didn't like, for example, that the original version swore to Greek gods, while others were concerned that the Oath didn't subscribe to certain political views. Therefore, they changed the Oath to reflect their beliefs. Today, in fact, some newly minted physicians refuse to take the Oath at all (even though most medical schools offer some form of it at graduation ceremonies, if not for purely ceremonial or traditional reasons). You see, the Hippocratic Oath was a way of trying to instill values, ethics, and professional integrity in those practicing medicine, but the problem with it is that not all humans share the same values or political...