developing scrummasters

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Developing ScrumMasters

#ABE14Warsaw, October 29th


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Angel Medinilla

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My Pleasure!

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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 NirvanaJust Listen and reflect...


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

- 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...

Progressive FacilitationJust Listen and reflect...


+

An integrated model

AlignmentContext

BoundariesConstraints

Skills Team Dynamics Individual

Issues

SellConsult

Agree Advice, Inquire

Delegate

Protect Team

Each new term adds over the previous ones:

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 way2) 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!!

(Oh, yes, and buy the book!)http://www.proyectalis.com/en/AngelMedinilla


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