Peter Götz - Professional Scrum Team, The (The Professional Scrum Series)

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Growing and Empowering Cross-Functionality and Resiliency in a Complex World

Peter Gtz

with contributions by

Uwe M. Schirmer and
Kurt Bittner

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We live in complex times. Technology has helped us bring the world together, enabling us to knit together complex supply chains and collaborate with colleagues across the globe. At the same time, this same technology seems, at times, to outpace our ability to harness it for good. To meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of this modern world, our view of work must shift from it being a standard set of managed tasks, performed by specialists and coordinated by management to deliver value, to an organization characterized by empowered teams whose members collaborate openly to fluidly adapt to new challenges.

At the heart of this new organization are teams of creators focused on delivering value to customers. At the heart of Scrum is also a teamthe Scrum Team. Being part of an effective, high-performing team is one of the most rewarding and powerful benefits of Scrum. A great team will succeed in the face of great challenges and will often deliver what others thought impossible.

But the Scrum Guide provides very little guidance for how Scrum Team members work together to deliver value. For many teams, Scrum exposes challenges in working together to which the team is unaccustomed. Overcoming these challenges can be frustrating to teams new to Scrum because it exposes the teams shortcomings but does not help them fix them. These teams can sometimes feel that Scrum wont work for us. They struggle with questions such as How do you build a great team? and What does it mean to be a member of a Scrum Team?

This book answers those questions. It describes the new rules of the game for being part of a high-performing team. Peter, Uwe, and Kurt explain what a Scrum Team is and how Scrum Teams deliver value. They describe, through an extended case study, the challenges and opportunities of working in this new way. The book paints a comprehensive picture of the future of teamwork, never glossing over the difficulties of working with others. The underlying principles are based on the fundamentals of Scrum and the ideas of professionalism.

Fundamental to this journey are the following:

• Empirical process: An approach that is rooted in learning by doing and adaptation based on that experience. This book describes what that means to a team, and how team members work together to learn and grow by delivering in small increments, measuring the results, and inspecting and adapting as they proceed.

• Self-organization and empowered teams: What sets apart creative, empowered teams from their merely average peers is their ability to determine, for themselves, how they work, how they organize, and how they make decisions. But just telling a group of people they should self-organize does not suddenly make it so; self-organization is a complex team skill that takes time to learn and master. This book provides practical guidance on how to help teams grow their effectiveness.

• Continuous improvement: Scrum helps teams to continuously improve their product, but it also helps them to continuously improve themselves, their way of working, and their skills. This book describes where and when retrospection and improvement happen.

In this context, professionalism means building on this foundation in the following four dimensions:

• Discipline, in learning from delivering valuable product increments about how the team approaches its work and in improving the value the team delivers to customers. This book describes approaches that a Scrum Team can apply from day one. It also highlights the difference between how discipline was realized in the industrial age and how it is realized in todays complex world.