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A collection of tips, tricks, and war stories to help the professional ScrumMaster break the chains of traditional organization and management
Overview
- Checklists, questions, and exercises to get you thinking (and acting) like a professional ScrumMaster
- Presented in a relaxed, jargon-free, personable style
- Full of ideas, tips, and anecdotes based on real-world experiences
In Detail
A natural and difficult tension exists between a project team (supply) and its customer (demand); a professional ScrumMaster relaxes this tension using the Scrum framework so that the team arrives at the best possible outcome.
The Professional ScrumMasters Handbook is a practical, no-nonsense guide to helping you become an inspiring and effective ScrumMaster known for getting results.
This book goes into great detail about why it seems like youre fighting traditional management culture every step of the way. You will explore the three roles of Scrum and how, working in harmony, they can deliver a product in the leanest way possible. Youll understand that even though there is no room for a project manager in Scrum, there are certain management aspects you should be familiar with to help you along the way. Getting a team to manage itself and take responsibility is no easy feat; this book will show you how to earn trust by displaying it and inspiring courage in a team every day.
The Professional ScrumMasters Handbook will challenge you to dig deep within yourself to improve your mindset, practices, and values in order to build and support the very best agile teams.
What you will learn from this book
- Create and maintain an impediment backlog to support continuous improvement for you, your team, and your organization
- How to tell the difference between an obstacle and a true constraint
- Create a culture transition map to help your team and organization deliver quickly and flexibly
- Work through exercises to help co-workers and management discover for themselves a new way of approaching tasks
- Align your actions to the Scrum values every day
- Facilitate lean meetings - light and quick, yet effective
Approach
Focusing on the ScrumMaster role and responsibilities, this book presents solutions and ideas for common problems, improving the overall methodology of a ScrumMasters approach.
Who this book is written for
The Professional ScrumMasters Handbook is for anybody who wishes to be a true ScrumMaster as the role was originally intended - a fearless, professional, change facilitator. This book extends your working knowledge of Scrum to explore other avenues and ways of thinking to help teams and organizations reach their full potential.
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First published: April 2013
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Stacia Viscardi
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Lee Devin
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I've known Stacia Viscardi for many years now, since the very beginning of my connection with the Agile software world. In fact, Stacia introduced me to that world and has guided me from (alas!) a distance ever since. I have marveled at her knowledge, her skills, and (rare in her field) her sly and generous wit. She's plenty nerdy, Stacia, but unlike most of her colleagues, she makes wonderfully unexpected connections between this and that; connections that always illuminate all sides of this, all the innards of that. These surprises, little time bombs of unforeseen pleasure, make her writing exceptional in a field not known for wit or surprise.
Stacia doesn't browbeat you with erudition or intimidate you with exotica. She simply sets her imagination to work on connections she sees that you may not have. Or, if you have seen them, she shines her light on a different facet than the one you may find familiar. That light has qualities rare in the software biz. It's warm, that light. It invites you to join, to include, and to enjoy. It makes no pushy effort to impress you with its brilliance. It illuminates her subject, the processes that create that subject, and her idiosyncratic, persuasive take on it.
When you read this book, you'll find yourself in wonderful company. If you know Stacia's work, this book will confirm your admiration and gratitude. If this book is your introduction to her, brace yourself!
You're in for a treat!
Lee Devin
Consultant, AgileEvolution,
Senior Consultant, Innovation Practice Cutter Consortium
Stacia Viscardi is an Agile coach, Certified Scrum Trainer, and organizational transformation expert, devoted to creating energized and excited teams that delight their customers and inspire others. With humble beginnings in Port Arthur, Texas, Stacia found her niche as a Manufacturing Project Manager in the early nineties; she landed in the technology world in 1999 and never looked back. In 2003 she became the sixty-second Certified ScrumMaster (there are now over 200,000!), and founded AgileEvolution in 2006. She has helped companies such as Cisco Systems, Martha Stewart Living, Primavera, DoubleClick, Google, Razorfish, MyPublisher, Washington Post, and many others find their way to agility. Co-author of the Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility , Stacia has taught Agile in 17 countries and is active in the ScrumAlliance as a CST and trusted community advisor. When she is not doing Agile stuff, she is training for a marathon or other long race or spending cozy nights on the sofa with her husband Chris, and dogs Jax and Cobi.
A self-proclaimed process nerd, she loves helping teams and organizations discover the Scrum/XP/Lean mash-ups that enables focused, flexible, and fast delivery of products. She created the blog HelloScrum to share knowledge, tips, and tricks with Scrum practitioners, and co-founded KnowAgile, an Agile testing website.
Stacia has co-authored The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility with Michele Sliger (2008, Addison-Wesley).
Over the past decade, I have met thousands of people who are passionate about finding new and exciting ways to work, people whose hearts are in their work every day, where writing software and creating great products is not only the company's lifeblood but also their own. These people work extremely hard, put in many late nights, trudge through moments of trying frustration, and yet do it all over again to bring awesome technologies to the everyday person. I am humbled to have worked in their presence, and without them this book would not be possible. A million thanks!
Chris, you are the best husband a girl could ever want. I knew so many years ago that you were my one great true love in life. Thank you for being so supportive while my head was stuck in this book for the past year.
I am so grateful to my grandparents for their infinite supply of support and love, and to my parents for teaching me to be self-reliant, and for instilling a hard-nosed, never-quit work ethic. Barbara and Tony, thank you for loving me and treating me like family. Alicia, I couldn't imagine a greater sisterthank you for your support and love. And Aunt Maureenmy other motherto the moon and back!
I'd like to thank Ken Schwaber for teaching me true Scrum. It is something much greater than I was capable of realizing so long ago; Lee Devin for being a great friend and for helping me find my edge and coming to the realization that no, I do not want to be an actor; Maria Thelin for her intelligence, friendship, and expert orienteering instruction; Dr. Rafael Landaeta for support and great ideas; Karen Delfau for taking a chance on me; and the CST and CSC community of brilliant and scandalous folks. I owe many martinis to Steve Spearman (Agile coach extraordinaire!) and Lee (Master Dramaturge), who worked those red pens through modifiers, tapeworms, and "izzes" and challenged me to take command of my ideas. Immense thanks to Abhishek, Neeshma, Erol, and many others at Packt who brought this book to life. I'm humbled by the loyalty of my dogs, Cobi and Jax, who sat by my side through many days and nights of typing, editing, and cursing. And finally, life wouldn't be worth living if not for running on the trails, where I can clear my head and think fresh, where God undeniably exists and always leads me to find myself.
Lee Devin taught theater while doing a PhD at Indiana University (1958-62), then at the University of Virginia (1962-66), Vassar College (1966-70), and Swarthmore College (1970-2002). He's an Equity actor and has played leading roles in productions from Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams. He has a residuals check from SAG in the amount of $0.01, to commemorate a brilliant movie career. With Rob Austin of the Copenhagen Business School he wrote
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