Developing ScrumMasters

Developing ScrumMasters
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Warsaw, October 29th
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40 slides in 40 minutes??
...I’ll be there in 25...

“Self Organizing Teams”

“Yeah, Self Organizing Teams”

“Empower Teams”
(yuup, kinda Self Organizing, mostly...)

“Empower Teams”

“Let’s build some roles...”

“Let’s build some roles...”
Roles:
Sponsor,
Business expert,
Usage expert,
Technical facilitator,
Business analyst/designer,
Project Manager,
Architect,
Lead designer/programmer,
Designer/programmer,
UI designer,
Design Mentor,
Reuse Point,
Writer,
Tester
Teams:
System planning,
Project monitoring,
Architecture,
Technology,
Functions,
Infrastructure,
External test.

(with all due respect to Mr. Cockburn - He Rocks!!)

“XP Coach”
”Watches the process as a whole and
calls the team's attention to impending
problems or opportunities for
improvement."
Beck, Kent: eXtreme Programming explained. Addison Wesley Long- man 1999 , P. 177

“ScrumMaster”

“Does whatever it takes to make the Scrum Team
successful, such as removing organizational impediments,
facilitating meetings, acting as a gatekeeper so no one
unnecessary interrupts the team's work."

???

“WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ SCRUM
MASTER HERE!!”
Yours Trully:
Self Organizing Team
(Oh, BTW, We Are
switching to
Kanban...)

“ScrumMaster”
(Extinct!)

Self Organizing? Yeah, for sure...

Or even worse...

Managing
Self Organization:
Alignment, Boundaries
& Constraints

Coach --> Sensei:
Develop and
Improve

ScrumDude

ScrumDude
- Schedule Meetings
- Team Secretary / Scribe
- Daily Three Questions
- List Impediments

ScrumMom

ScrumMom
- Moderate Meetings
- Protect the team
- Diagnose & Decide
- Directly remove impediments
- Team Interface
- Assign tasks
- Owner of the process, decides on
framework issues
- Artificial harmony / evades conflict
- Bossy
- Still cares about velocity, delivery
dates...

True ScrumMaster

True ScrumMaster
- Facilitate Meetings
- Grow the team, progressively delegates
- Help them find causes and develop
strategies
- Keep them responsible & accountable
- Teach them to interact with themselves
(collaboration) and with the company
- Encourage them to be proactive
- Points out stuff we need to talk about
- Positive / constructive conflict
- “TEAM GARDENER”, trainer, mentor,
coach...
- Cares about motivation (both team level
and individual level)
- Focus on long term learning and growing,
innovation, research, improvement...
- Agile evangelist, Change Agent

Agile Nirvana

Agile Nirvana
Just Listen and reflect...

- Schedule Meetings
- Team Secretary / Scribe
- Daily Three Questions
- List Impediments
Progressive Facilitation
Just Listen and reflect...
- Facilitate Meetings
- Grow the team, progressively delegates
- Help them find causes and develop strategies
- Keep them responsible & accountable
- Teach them to interact with themselves
(collaboration) and with the company
- Encourage them to be proactive
- Points out stuff we need to talk about
- Positive / constructive conflict
- “TEAM GARDENER”, trainer, mentor, coach...
- Cares about motivation (both team level and
individual level)
- Focus on long term learning and growing,
innovation, research, improvement...
- Agile evangelist, Change Agent
- Moderate Meetings
- Protect the team
- Diagnose & Decide
- Directly remove impediments
- Team Interface
- Assign tasks
- Owner of the process, decides on
framework issues
- Artificial harmony / evades
conflict
- Bossy
- Still cares about velocity, delivery
dates...

An integrated model
Each new term adds over the previous ones:
Agree Advice,
+
Alignment
Context
Sell
Consult
+
Boundaries
Constraints
Skills Team
Dynamics Individual
Issues
Inquire
Delegate
Protect Team
Support
Team
Team
Identity

Just one step
forward!

“XP Coach”
- Good Communicator, calm, not easily panicked
- Technically Skilled, development partner
- Knows the process, explains to managers
Beck, Kent: eXtreme Programming explained. Addison Wesley Long- man 1999 , P. 73-64, P.145

- Learn Code Basics
- TDD / BDD / *DD, CI
- Tools & Frameworks
- Understand Business
- Enroll Tech Experts in
your quest
- “Guilds”
- Coding Dojos & other
community events
- Congress / Events
- Training / Certification
- Community
- Online resources / “Gurus”
- Books
- Pairing
- “Lean” Literature, Lean
Startup / CustDev...
- Psicology / Neuroscience
- Listening, coactive Coaching
- Public Speaking, Storytelling
- Mindfullness Meditation
- Collaboration, Facilitation
- Mentoring
- Change / Culture Management
- Motivational Science

Wrap Up Time!
1) ScrumMaster’s Biggest role is to help
the Team learn how to Self Organize in
a constructive way
2) There’s an evolution of
ScrumMastership through time - be
always just one step ahead the team!
(Don’t get too comfortable being the
ScrumMom!)
3) Find were your ScrumMaster lays
and move him to the center (develop
your ScrumMaster - Human, Tech, Agile)

Thank you and... BLOG IT!!
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http://www.proyectalis.com/en/AngelMedinilla

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