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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

Improving sprint planning


You should always look for ways (and suggestions from the team) to make meetings shorter and more efficient. Retrospectives (Chapter 5, The End? Improving Product and Process One Bite at a Time) provide an excellent forum for adapting sprint planning as well as anything else that may need improvement. Some ScrumMasters even run a quick retrospective in the sprint planning meeting itself to capture ideas for improvement while they are fresh in everyone's minds! I was hired as a coach at one client to work with a number of teams, one in particular that completed sprint planning in 15 minutes; management thought they were slacking because they planned so quickly! After spending a couple of sprints with them I determined that their planning was sufficient. They completed what they committed to and the product owner was happy with the work. What more can you ask for? As I used to say growing up in Texas, "Don't fix it if it ain't broke!".

Over time, find ways to make...