Latest Slides of our Developing Great ScrumMasters talk, delivered at Agile By Example Warsaw on October 2014

1. Developing ScrumMasters
#ABE14
Warsaw, October 29th
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

2. DISCLAIMER:
VANITY SLIDES
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

3. Angel Medinilla
You killed my father,
prepare to die!!
angel.medinilla@proyectalis.com
www.proyectalis.com/en/AngelMedinilla
(Slides, Videos, Newsletter, Books, Blog, LinkedIn,
Sketchnotes, Twitter...)
Twitter: @angel_m
(would love some instant feedback!)
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

4. Angel Medinilla
(Crazy Spaniard™)
angel.medinilla@proyectalis.com
www.proyectalis.com/en/AngelMedinilla
(Slides, Videos, Newsletter, Books, Blog, LinkedIn,
Sketchnotes, Twitter...)
Twitter: @angel_m
(would love some instant feedback!)
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

5. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

6. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

7. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

8. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

9. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

10. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis
My
Pleasure!
</vanity>

11. 40 slides in 40 minutes??
...I’ll be there in 25...
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

12. © 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

13. © 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

14. “Self Organizing Teams”
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

15. © 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

16. “Yeah, Self Organizing Teams”
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

17. © 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

18. “Empower Teams”
(yuup, kinda Self Organizing, mostly...)
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

19. © 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

20. “Empower Teams”
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

21. “Let’s build some roles...”
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

22. “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.
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

23. (with all due respect to Mr. Cockburn - He Rocks!!)
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

24. “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
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

25. “ScrumMaster”
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

26. “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."
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

27. ???
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

28. “WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ SCRUM
MASTER HERE!!”
Yours Trully:
Self Organizing Team
(Oh, BTW, We Are
switching to
Kanban...)
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

29. “ScrumMaster”
(Extinct!)
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

30. Self Organizing? Yeah, for sure...
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

31. Or even worse...
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

32. Managing
Self Organization:
Alignment, Boundaries
& Constraints
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

33. Coach --> Sensei:
Develop and
Improve
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

34. © 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

35. ScrumDude
© 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

36. ScrumDude
- Schedule Meetings
- Team Secretary / Scribe
- Daily Three Questions
- List Impediments
© 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

37. ScrumMom
© 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

38. 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...
© 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

39. True ScrumMaster
© 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

40. 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
© 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

41. Agile Nirvana
© 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

42. Agile Nirvana
Just Listen and reflect...
© 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

43. - 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...
© 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

44. 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
© 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

45. Just one step
forward!
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

46. “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
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

47. © 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

48. © 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

49. © 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

50. © 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

51. © 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

52. - 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
© 2014 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

53. 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)
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

54. Thank you and... BLOG IT!!
(Oh, yes, and buy the book!)
http://www.proyectalis.com/en/AngelMedinilla
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis

55. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
This presentation is based upon the ideas and
work of many people. And while I’ve tried to
recognize copyrights and give credit and
attribution where possible, I cannot possibly
list them all, so if you feel like there’s
something that should be added, changed or
removed from this presentation, please drop
me an e-mail at
angel.medinilla@proyectalis.com
© 2013 Proyectalis Gestión de Proyectos S.L. More at http://Slideshare.net/proyectalis