Shiv Sivakumar
Shiv has over 38 years of industry experience and is an expert in Agile Transformation & Delivery Excellence. As a Principal Consultant at PM Power Shiv is involved in many offerings including Program & Project Management and Agile Transformation.
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As Gwen, I would talk with Felix and will explain him about the SM role benefits. On the outside, it might be seen that SM is ONLY facilitating and does not add value much in terms of development or testing, the Real Value that SM brings into the team is invaluable.
1. SM drives Agile adoption and takes the team towards the excellence journey.
2. SM is a process referee and will be unbiased and non-judgmental
3. Managing and facilitating meeting by themselves are not an easy task and you would need an expert to drive them.
4. You need a SM to coach and help the team to be self organizing and self managing.
5. SM is a change enabler in the team and helps with one of the core Agile principles – continuously improving the team.
I would finally give back Felix a question: Why world conquering champion sport teams (any sports – football, cricket, rugby) require a coach when every team member is a leader by themselves; knowing the game in and out, and does not need anybody to help them with the game? what value they bring to the team as they are not playing on the field and does not do much in Live actions?