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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 6. The Criticality of Real-time Information

I lived in the NYC metro area for years, and I get particularly grouchy and disgruntled when my travels require that I take a train from Penn Station. Several train lines depart from Penn Station—New Jersey Transit, Long Island Railroad, Amtrak—to name a few. NJ Transit and Amtrak trains share a central schedule, a big board, about the size of five ping pong tables put together end to end, with letters and numbers that click-click-click like the shuffling of a card deck as it shows basic information about the incoming/outbound trains, departure times, and track numbers. While a good way to distribute basic information, the issue is that the tracks are updated within mere minutes of departure time, which means that large crowds stand underneath and around the suspended dashboard, nervously awaiting track information. Click-click-CLICK! The track number appears! Five hundred people clog one skinny escalator as they attempt the descent to...