What's your personality style? Go out and take the Meyers-Briggs assessment if you haven't already. Which traits will help you as a ScrumMaster? Which traits might hinder you?
Talk with others. Get feedback about your performance during meetings with respect to your verbal and written styles, effectiveness of communication. See if you can tease out criticism and areas for improvement. Don't forget to celebrate the things that you do well.
Set up a bi-weekly leadership meeting with fellow ScrumMasters. Identify books to read, blogs to follow, things to try. Report back to each other, critique each other, help each other improve.
When you feel threatened, what makes you feel this way? Is it a person? A communication style? A situation that brings out feelings of inadequacy? Once you've identified the trigger for your feeling, try to pinpoint why you feel this way. Are you afraid of losing? Appearing dumb? What reasons do you have for feeling intimidated in certain situations? Are these reasons legitimate? Even if they are, there must be one thing you can do to start to change the situation. Maybe it's your reaction. Identify and practice it.
Pay attention to what you say for one week. Write down every statement that you make that has a negative twist. Evaluate this at the end of one week; did you have many? Did these tend to fall within the same categories?
Do you have a Scrum buddy? Get one if not?
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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.
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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Scrum – A Brief Review of the Basics (and a Few Interesting Tidbits)
Release Planning – Tuning Product Development
Sprint Planning – Fine-tune the Sprint Commitment
Sprint! Visible, Collaborative, and Meaningful Work
The End? Improving Product and Process One Bite at a Time
The Criticality of Real-time Information
Scrum Values Expose Fear, Dysfunction, and Waste
Everyday Leadership for the ScrumMaster and Team
Shaping the Agile Organization
Scrum – Large and Small
Scrum and the Future
The ScrumMaster's Responsibilities
ScrumMaster's Workshop
Index
Customer Reviews