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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

The five core values of Scrum


The Scrum values are important because they transform the way teams work and create collaboration opportunities between business stakeholders and teams, ultimately replacing hostility with trust. Any company or team can implement sprints, backlogs, and burndown charts (that's the easy part), but a company or team that embodies and lives the values will excel.

Scrum value

Antithesis

Commitment

A manager committing on behalf of others

Focus

Suboptimization

Openness

Secrecy

Respect

Position, power, and control

Courage

Caution and contracts

Scrum values are interrelated. For example, when a team commits to a sprint, everyone else outside the team should respect them to get the work done. The team displays courage by committing to show their work at the sprint review. As ScrumMaster, you must get your team to live the values by doing the practices; if you have to pick one or two out of the five, start with courage and openness:

The Scrum values won't match...