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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

Through the Scrum microscope


Communication should be timely, streamlined, reflect reality, and include the appropriate decision makers. The level of information should be appropriate to the audience.

Just like any microscope, our Scrum microscope has a set of objective lenses; the view of a project is very different depending on the strength of the lens chosen. When we want to see a general shape of something, we'll use the 1x or 2x strength. This might be appropriate for, say, a product vision statement or product roadmap. When we want to see every last detail, we'll use the 64x. The daily communication of the team is like the 32x or 64x lens—all the detailed work tasks, team member interactions, code and tests being written and executed, discussions, and dependencies between team members. We don't need 64x, though, for reporting to executives. They may want to see information at the 2x or 4x level. As a ScrumMaster, you must understand that providing visibility and information is one thing...