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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 9. Shaping the Agile Organization

In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white person after the white section was filled. She later said in an interview that, "I would have to know for once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen." (Charles Marsh, 2006, The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights to Today.) Her values of equality, rights, and citizenship were made clear that day when she told the bus driver to go ahead and have her arrested as she would not move from her seat. She was in fact arrested, and subsequently went to trial; her actions sparked a Women's Political Council distribution of 35,000 brochures that called for the boycotting of Montgomery buses. That boycott continued for 381 days! The courage of Parks defined a moment in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

When was the last time you took a stand for something? You don't have to be a president to find your...