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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

Face it, Scrum might not be for your organization


Your job as a ScrumMaster is to take a stand. Be courageous. Laugh in the face of fear. Your mission is much bigger than to be an iteration manager or to create a burndown chart. You are attempting to change things for the better, enrich people's lives, and make work a better place to be.

I do not, for one moment, feel that it's fair to put all the responsibility on one person, the ScrumMaster, to incite and sustain change in an organization. But it must start somewhere. And if we wait on the perfect combination of events or people, change will never happen. However, you might feel overwhelmed after reading this chapter. Maybe you didn't know that this is what a ScrumMaster is chartered to do. Maybe you knew but hoped you didn't need to know! ScrumMaster as change agent was the ultimate vision that Ken Schwaber had in mind when he created the role. All of this gets lost in translation, when the practices override the mind-set.

At some point...