Scrum Master’s Goal
One singular goal of any SM is to encourage ‘self-organization’. Create a ‘self-organized’ team. “Self-Organization” looks very simple from the periphery, but it’s difficult to understand it and even harder to develop. Scrum Team(ST) and the Development Team(DT) within that are self-organizing. Self-organizing teams chose how best to accomplish their work, rather than being directed by others […]
CHOW# 160 – Stepping into new shoes
Akhil is a seasoned engineering senior manager at a technology company. He has led and guided many successful projects including ones that have complex architectures to scale and deliver high availability platforms. His organization has recently decided to adopt agile practices and have sought the services of an agile transformation coach. Akhil heads the platform […]
Chow #143 – Role Time
Aman was a newly hired scrum master in the organization. He realized that there were other Scrum Masters who were partially doing this role and doing technical work rest of the time. He had a conversation with his manager to understand why his role was different and if he could also do part time technical […]
CHOW #127 – Brand Image of Scrum Masters
Rajiv has been working as a scrum master and coaching the teams after getting trained. Management and teams think that Scrum Master is like a secretary who just books the meeting rooms, facilitates daily meetings and helps with some tasks when team asks for it. Rajiv spoke to couple of other scrum masters in the […]
CHOW #62- “Bite what you can chew” Responsibilities a Scrum Master can take
Barbara Jones had been a Scrum Master for a year with a team and had done a good job getting the team to a good level maturity in Agile adoption. The need for her support had reduced over time. It occupied Barbara just for a few hours per week on an average. Barbara approached her […]
Help a Business Analyst Pivot
Divya is a business analyst – working with clients, understanding requirements and ensuring that is understood by the team when they build. She has eight years experience and has been working in teams that you manage for the past couple of years. She has reached out to you, and as part of the conversation you […]
CHOW #31- Does Agile work for a team of freshers?
Karen has a mandate to setup a new team in India for a product line. This product line has teams in the US and they are growing to accommodate to build new features as well as maintain the expansive features. With that context, Karen created a transition plan for a period of 6 months through […]
