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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

Summary


Many people think of Scrum as something to transition to, rather than through. When you apply the values of Scrum via its framework, it will reveal all sorts of things; obstacles that get in the way of creating value for customers. Additionally, it will reveal fear and dysfunction. The organization that views Scrum as the silver bullet says, "Scrum messed everything up. We have all of these problems now that we implemented Scrum." This represents a flawed understanding of Scrum. As ScrumMaster, you must help people realize what Scrum really is—and just as importantly, help them realize what it isn't.

Many people in technology misunderstand the role of the ScrumMaster to be simply that of an iteration manager. Hopefully, you realize that the ScrumMaster role was created with the concept of change agent in mind. Becoming an effective change agent is a lifelong task of learning and introspection. The knowledge and experience is more than I could ever stuff into a chapter, or a book....