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The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

By : Stacia Viscardi
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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

Culture change requires a multi-faceted approach


Because Agile is focused on people and on keeping process at a minimum, transitioning to an Agile culture requires a multi-faceted approach. An organization, working with and through its ScrumMasters, should help product managers think about incremental value and backlog management, assist Human Resources in determining new goals and measurements for employees, shift everyone's mind-set toward building in quality, use adaptive and just-in-time planning techniques in the project management office, and boost team performance. Continuous improvement surrounds all of these facets like a safety net, yet efforts across these facets should be integrated and synched on a regular basis. For example, as teams discover various tools and practices that help them do their jobs better, this information should be synchronized with Human Resources so that teams are allowed and encouraged to utilize new ways of working. Sometimes, the existing HR and performance...