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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

Summary


Scrum has been used in implementations small and large, in just about every corner of the earth with just about every technology! It is simple enough to start today, yet humans can greatly complicate things. Sometimes teams can be too small; look at ways of grouping people so that five different projects aren't competing for the same resources, causing people to multitask and to lose precious productive hours as a result.

When scaling Scrum, start small if you can, and grow teams as needed. Regardless of the number of teams, focus on creating an environment in which people thrive and get things done. The resulting team motivation will help people outperform any other way of management. Recruit an Agile project coordinator in the largest of programs to help keep everything moving and everyone on the same page. In Chapter 11, Scrum and the Future, we will discuss how Scrum will change the organization and operation modes of businesses in the future.