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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 10: Scrum – Large and Small


  1. Do you feel that if you're truly performing the role of the ScrumMaster that you would have time for more than one team? Under what circumstances might you?

  2. Let's say you have a team of 13 people, each with a very narrow specialty. Scrum is causing difficulty as the team seems too large. What other alternatives are there?

  3. How does a product owner ensure that quality is good when there are multiple teams involved in developing one product? What's the ScrumMaster's role in this?

  4. Who attends your Scrum of Scrum meeting? Based on what you've learned in Chapter 9, Shaping the Agile Organization, is this the right set of attendees?

  5. Does your team or teams have a Definition of Done? If not, please find the next immediate time to discuss this