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The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

By : Stacia Viscardi
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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

Will Agile cause a ripple, or a tsunami?


An executive once said to me, "We want to do Scrum so that we can get a culture." And I said, "But you already have a culture. It's there. It just may not be the one you would like to have."

Very often, the existing organizational values don't match the Scrum ones. And, well, in most cases we wouldn't expect them to, at least initially. After all, you're probably initiating Scrum (or being asked to initiate it) for a reason. Many executives and managers say, "We want to do Agile because we need to do more with less, have better quality, or deliver faster." Others unfortunately think that the Scrum framework will solve all of their problems. What they fail to understand is that teams and the greater organization must adopt the values to appropriately apply the principles. By valuing and trusting the people, and their knowledge and interactions, the organization will find the right Agile solutions through its people. It's just that management classically...