Download or read book The Scrum Master Toolkit written by Al Kraus and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do your meetings drag on with little to no productive outcomes? Do team members recoil when they are asked to attend a Scrum event? Is the team just not "getting it"? Does the team keep trying to revert to their old way of working? How often do you have to really work to drag improvement ideas out of them? Do you aspire to obtain the "white whale" of a hyper-productive team? It's time to take matters into your own hands and gain the knowledge and insight you need to achieve your goals.We are about to embark on a journey to learn how to effectively facilitate meetings, coach your team to empowerment, increase productivity, and become the Scrum Master that every team deserves. Based on your experience, you can probably relate to the following common questions: - How do I bring this group together to be a team?- How can I help the team adapt to a Scrum approach?- How can I coach the team to hold itself accountable?- How do I make the meetings fun and effective?- What are the next steps for me, both personally and professionally, as a Scrum Master?We will cover these concerns and more, starting with how to keep meetings on track and productive. After, you will learn how to gain influence within your team to enable you to coach them towards improvements. When you do, your teams will experience the following things:- Teams that hold themselves accountable and feel empowered.- Team members are driving ideas for improvement.- Team members are happier and look forward to coming into work.- Engagement in meetings, creating innovative solutions to issues.- Meetings become a source of energy for the team instead of a drain.- The team will be more productive than they thought they could be.The Scrum Master Toolkit gives you everything you need to embark on your Scrum Master journey.
Download or read book Agile Leadership Toolkit written by Peter Koning and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical, Proven Tools for Leading and Empowering High-Performing Agile Teams A leader is like a farmer, who doesn’t grow crops by pulling them but instead creates the perfect environment for the crops to grow and thrive. If you lead in organizations that have adopted agile methods, you know it’s crucial to create the right environment for your agile teams. Traditional tools such as Gantt charts, detailed plans, and internal KPIs aren’t adequate for complex and fast-changing markets, but merely trusting employees and teams to self-manage is insufficient as well. In Agile Leadership Toolkit, longtime agile leader Peter Koning provides a practical and invaluable steering wheel for agile leaders and their teams. Drawing on his extensive experience helping leaders drive more value from agile, Koning offers a comprehensive toolkit for continuously improving your environment, including structures, metrics, meeting techniques, and governance for creating thriving teams that build disruptive products and services. Koning thoughtfully explains how to lead agile teams at large scale and how team members fit into both the team and the wider organization. Architect environments that help teams learn, grow, and flourish for the long term Get timely feedback everyone can use to improve Co-create goals focused on the customer, not the internal organization Help teams brainstorm and visualize the value of their work to the customer Facilitate team ownership and accelerate team learning Support culture change, and design healthier team habits Make bigger changes faster This actionable guide is for leaders at all levels—whether you’re supervising your first agile team, responsible for multiple teams, or lead the entire company. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
Download or read book Agile Series written by Maria Elena Boiser and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Scrum Master Toolkit video will provide you with the required mindset, knowledge, and techniques to kickstart a fulfilling journey as a Scrum Master. You will work your Scrum ceremonies more effectively, utilize Scrum artifacts to diagnose your team's progress, and establish great working relationships with people."--Resource description page.
Download or read book Fixing Your Scrum written by Ryan Ripley and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scrum Master's work is never done. The Development team needs your support, the Product Owner is often lost in the complexities of agile product management, and your managers and stakeholders need to know what will be done, by when, and for how much. Learn how experienced Scrum Masters balance the demands of these three levels of servant leadership while removing organizational impediments and helping Scrum Teams deliver real world value. Discover how to visualize your work, resolve impediments, and empower your teams to self-organize and deliver using the Scrum Values, Agile Principles, and advanced coaching and facilitation techniques. A Scrum Master needs to know when their team is in trouble and understand how to help them get back on the path to delivery. Become a better Scrum master so you can find the problems holding your teams back. Has your Daily Scrum turned in to a meeting? Does your team struggle with creating user stories? Are stakeholders disengaged during Sprint Review? These issues are common. Learn to use empiricism as your guide and help your teams create great products. Scrum is so much more than a checklist of practices to follow, yet that's exactly how many organizations practice it. Bring life back to your Scrum events by using advanced facilitation techniques to leverage the full intelligence of your team. Improve your retrospectives with new formats and exercises. Ask powerful questions that spark introspection and improvement. Get support and buy-in from management. Use Scrum as a competitive advantage for your organization. Create a definition of done that improves quality and fix failing sprints. Take the next step on your journey as a Scrum master. Transform your Scrum practices to help your teams enjoy their work again as they deliver high quality products that bring value to the world. What You Need: A moderate level of experience using the Scrum Framework.
Download or read book The Great ScrumMaster written by Zuzana Sochova and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. The Fast, Focused, Practical Guide to Excellence with Scrum The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay is your complete guide to becoming an exceptionally effective ScrumMaster and using Scrum to dramatically improve team and organizational performance. Easy to digest and highly visual, you can read it in a weekend...and use it for an entire career. Drawing on 15 years of pioneering experience implementing Agile and Scrum and helping others do so, Zuzana Šochová guides you step by step through all key facets of success as a ScrumMaster in any context. Šochová reviews the ScrumMaster’s responsibilities, introduces her powerful State of Mind model and #ScrumMasterWay approach, and teaches crucial metaskills that every ScrumMaster needs. Learn how to build more effective teams, manage change in Agile environments, and take fulladvantage of the immensely powerful ScrumMaster toolbox. Throughout, Šochová illuminates each concept with practical, proven examples that show how to move from idea to successful execution. Understand the ScrumMaster’s key role in creating high-performance self-organizing teams Master all components of the ScrumMaster State of Mind: teaching/mentoring, removing impediments, facilitation, and coaching Operate effectively as a ScrumMaster at all levels: team, relationships, and the entire system Sharpen key ScrumMaster cognitive strategies and core competencies Build great teams, and improve teams that are currently dysfunctional Drive deeper change in a safer environment with better support for those affected Make the most of Shu Ha Ri, System Rule, Root Cause Analysis, Impact Mapping, and other ScrumMaster tools Whether you’re a long-time Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or participating in your first Scrum project, this guide will help you leverage world-class insight in all you do and get the outstanding results you’re looking for. Register your product at informit.com/register for convenient access to downloads, updates, and corrections as they become available
Download or read book Retrospectives a Scrum Master s Guide written by Daria Bagina and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running a successful Retrospective can be challenging. Maybe you never run one before and you are not sure where to start. Maybe you run dozens of them and you see that they are not as productive as before. The solution is in the tools you can use to guide you to better Retrospectives.Retrospectives: The Scrum Master's Guide is here to help Scrum Masters run awesome Retrospective sessions and engage their teams in productive discussions that lead to actual solutions.The guide includes twenty unique Retrospective techniques and focuses on step-by-step instructions for each one of them. If you never run a session before, the guide will tell you how to and will help you be successful from the start. In addition to clear instructions, each technique includes speaking prompts to get you a head-start in each Retrospective even if you didn't have time to prepare. Take away all the stress from facilitating difficult discussions!To make sure you stay on track for your Retrospective session, the book contains a one-pager per technique that you can print and use as a cheat-sheet. Print all twenty and you can easily bring the whole set with you in your pocket.The book also includes some general guidelines and advice that can be used in any retrospective, such as different ways to run a voting exercise, how to resolve common challenges in a retrospective, and how to engage your team in advance of the actual session.As a professional Scrum Master with years of hands-on experience, I have collected, developed and tested these techniques myself. All of them are based on my personal stories working with a variety of teams. You will find a perfect technique that works best for your situation. All the great things that are included in the book:- Situational guide. A short explanation will help you understand what team and situation each technique work best to help you adapt your approach.- Preparation guide. See exactly how much time and what you need to prepare for the session.Step-by-step instructions. Clear instructions will guide you through the session even if you never run a retrospective before.- Speaking cues. To make sure your team understands various aspects of each technique, explanation examples are given for each step of your retrospective.- Technique modifications. Almost every technique can be modified to be reused in a new way and provide different results thanks to additional examples.- Facilitator's notes. Notes based on real-life challenges and situations are added to help you make your retrospective technique a success!
Download or read book 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know written by Gunther Verheyen and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve your understanding of Scrum through the proven experience and collected wisdom of experts around the world. Based on real-life experiences, the 97 essays in this unique book provide a wealth of knowledge and expertise from established practitioners who have dealt with specific problems and challenges with Scrum. You'll find out more about the rules and roles of this framework, as well as tactics, strategies, specific patterns to use with Scrum, and stories from the trenches. You'll also gain insights on how to apply, tune, and tweak Scrum for your work. This guide is an ideal resource for people new to Scrum and those who want to assess and improve their understanding of this framework. "Scrum Is Simple. Just Use It As Is.," Ken Schwaber "The 'Standing Meeting,'" Bob Warfield "Specialization Is for Insects," James O. Coplien "Scrum Events Are Rituals to Ensure Good Harvest," Jasper Lamers "Servant Leadership Starts from Within," Bob Galen "Agile Is More than Sprinting," James W. Grenning
Download or read book Large Scale Scrum written by Craig Larman and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Go-To Resource for Large-Scale Organizations to Be Agile Rather than asking, “How can we do agile at scale in our big complex organization?” a different and deeper question is, “How can we have the same simple structure that Scrum offers for the organization, and be agile at scale rather than do agile?” This profound insight is at the heart of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum). In Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde have distilled over a decade of experience in large-scale LeSS adoptions towards a simpler organization that delivers more flexibility with less complexity, more value with less waste, and more purpose with less prescription. Targeted to anyone involved in large-scale development, Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, offers straight-to-the-point guides for how to be agile at scale, with LeSS. It will clearly guide you to Adopt LeSS Structure a large development organization for customer value Clarify the role of management and Scrum Master Define what your product is, and why Be a great Product Owner Work with multiple whole-product focused feature teams in one Sprint that produces a shippable product Coordinate and integrate between teams Work with multi-site teams
Download or read book The Scrum Master Files written by Angela Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any Agile approach involves change. If you choose Scrum as the new way to do work, an effective Scrum Master is critical to successfully meeting goals and objectives and continuously improving. New Scrum Masters tend to focus on the "mechanical" part of the Scrum framework. Yes, that is an important part of the job! The more important aspect of the S.M.'s job is the "people" part. The Scrum Master is a coach, a guide, an objective facilitator and a teacher. Many companies say they want to "Go Agile" and choose the Scrum framework but do not understand scrum mastery.This book provides many secrets every new Scrum Master should know. It can also be helpful to others in an organization who seek to understand this role more in depth. This book is not only packed full of tips and tricks for coaches, it provides practical scenarios to work through. These case studies provide the reader a safe way to think through Scrum Master interventions resulting in several lessons learned.If you want to improve your "people chip" and enhance your scrum master skills, this book is for you.
Download or read book Mastering Professional Scrum written by Stephanie Ockerman and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Our job as Scrum professionals is to continually improve our ability to use Scrum to deliver products and services that help customers achieve valuable outcomes. This book will help you to improve your ability to apply Scrum.” –From the Foreword by Ken Schwaber, co-author of Scrum Mastering Professional Scrum is for anyone who wants to deliver increased value by using Scrum more effectively. Leading Scrum practitioners Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl draw on years of Scrum training and coaching to help you return to first principles and apply Scrum with the professionalism required to achieve its transformative potential. The authors aim to help you focus on proven Scrum approaches for improving quality, getting and using fast feedback, and becoming more adaptable, instead of “going through the motions” and settling for only modest improvements. Whether you’re a Scrum Master, Development Team member, or Product Owner, you’ll find practical advice for facing challenges with transparency and courage, overcoming a wide array of common challenges, and continually improving your Scrum practice. Realistically assess your current Scrum practice, and identify areas for improvement Recognize what a great Scrum Team looks like and get there Focus on “Done”–not “sort-of-Done” or “almost-Done” Measure and optimize the value delivered by every Product Increment Improve the way you plan, develop, and grow Clear away wider organizational impediments to agility and professionalism Overcome common misconceptions that stand in the way of progress Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
Download or read book The Agile Meeting Toolkit written by Ethann Castell and published by School of Innovation. This book was released on 2017-04-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Agile and Scrum teams work with a cadence built around four core meetings:-Standup-Planning-Review-RetrospectiveThese meetings are repeated by the team every Sprint/Iteration, week after week, month after month, year after year. So no matter how good the team, the Scrum Master or the Agile Coach, these meetings eventually start to become predictable, less effective and eventually just plain boring. And this can lead teams to become stale, demotivated and under-performing.We can't blame the teams though; as the problem lies deep within the wiring of our human brains. We all have a section of our brain specifically designed for seeking novelty; Neuroscientists call it the substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area (SN/VTA), and they tell us (in laypersons language) that it starts to get a bit cranky unless we feed it something new and interesting from time to time. It follows that if we want to keep Agile teams fresh, engaged and at their best, we need a way to constantly provide novel variations to the four core Agile meetings.The Agile Meeting Toolkit contains over 100 field-tested techniques; an almost endless supply of novelty, variation and fun to add to your meetings. This toolkit is simple to implement and immediately actionable, meaning that from today onwards you can energise every Agile meeting, and engage every Agile Team.
Download or read book Toolkit for Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters written by Charlotte Bendermacher and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum written by Kurt Bittner and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve and Accelerate Software Delivery for Large, Distributed, Complex Projects The Nexus Framework is the simplest, most effective approach to applying Scrum at scale across multiple teams, sites, and time zones. Created by Scrum.org–the pioneering Scrum training and certification organization founded by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber–Nexus draws on decades of experience to address the unique challenges teams face in coming together, sharing work, and managing and minimizing dependencies. The NexusTM Framework for Scaling Scrum is a concise book that shows how Nexus helps teams to deliver a complex, multi-platform, software-based product in short, frequent cycles, without sacrificing consistency or quality, and without adding unnecessary complexity or straying from Scrum’s core principles. Using an extended case study, the authors illustrate how Nexus helps teams solve common scaling challenges like reducing cross-team dependencies, preserving team self-organization and transparency, and ensuring accountability. Understand the challenges of delivering working, integrated product increments with multiple teams, and how Nexus addresses them Form a Nexus around a new or existing product and learn how that Nexus sets goals and plans its work Run Sprints within a Nexus, provide transparency into progress, conduct effective Nexus Sprint reviews, and use Nexus Sprint Retrospectives to continuously improve Overcome the distributed team collaboration challenges
Download or read book Zombie Scrum Survival Guide written by Johannes Schartau and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape “Zombie Scrum” and Get Real Value from Agile! “Professional Scrum and Zombie Scrum are mortal enemies in eternal combat. If you relax your guard, Zombie Scrum comes back. This guide helps you stay on your guard, providing very practical tips for identifying when you have become a Zombie and how to stop this from happening. A must-have for any Zombie Scrum hunter.” --Dave West, CEO, Scrum.org “Barry, Christiaan, and Johannes have done a magnificent job of accumulating successful experiences and sharing their inspiring stories in this very practical book. They don't shy away from telling it like it is, which is why their proposals are always as useful as they are grounded in reality.” --Henri Lipmanowicz, cofounder, Liberating Structures Millions of professionals use Scrum. It is the #1 approach to agile software development in the world. Even so, by some estimates, over 70% of Scrum adoptions fall flat. Developers find themselves using “Zombie Scrum” processes that look like Scrum, but are slow, lifeless, and joyless. Scrum is just not working for them. Zombie Scrum Survival Guide reveals why Scrum runs aground and shows how to supercharge your Scrum outcomes, while having a lot more fun along the way. Humorous, visual, and extremely relatable, it offers practical approaches, exercises, and tools for escaping Zombie Scrum. Even if you are surrounded by skeptics, this book will be the antidote to help you build more of what users need, ship faster, improve more continuously, interact more successfully in any team, and feel a whole lot better about what you are doing. Suddenly, one day soon, you will remember: that is why we adopted Scrum in the first place! Learn how Zombie Scrum infects you, why it spreads, and how to inoculate yourself Get closer to your stakeholders, and wake up to their understanding of value Discover why Zombie teams can't learn, and what to do about it Clear away the specific obstacles to real continuous improvement Make self-managed teams real so people can behave like humans, not Zombies Zombie Scrum Survival Guide is for Scrum Masters, Scrum practitioners, Agile coaches and leaders, and everyone who wants to transform the promises of Scrum into reality. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
Download or read book The Product Manager s Toolkit written by Gabriel Steinhardt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a consistent and holistic managerial approach to product management and presents a practical and comprehensive methodology (roles, processes, tasks, and deliverables) that covers all aspects of product management. It helps students of product management, product management practitioners, product management organizations, and corporations understand the value, theory, and implementation of product management. It outlines a practical approach to clarify role definitions, identify responsibilities, define processes and deliverables, and improve the ability to communicate with stakeholders. The book details the fundamentals of the Blackblot Product Manager's Toolkit® (PMTK) product management methodology, a globally adopted best practice.
Download or read book Agile Project Management Scrum Master written by Paul VII and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrum Master - Your Job Just Got Easier In this class, you will be given many proven tips to effectively facilitate, coach and improve agile scrum teams. The road to becoming a professional scrum master is exciting and challenging. Therefore, I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of the scrum master. I then walk you step by step through the differences between a scrum master and a traditional project manager. Following this, I will give you tips for improving your effectiveness as a scrum master as well as coaching both product owners and development teams. Along the way, I will give you plenty of examples and enlighten you about the best practices for being a scrum master within agile scrum. In this class, you will learn: A brief recap of agile and scrum principles What is a scrum master and how is he or she different from a traditional project manager A day in the life of a scrum master (including typical impediments and challenges) Tools usually used by scrum teams and how the scrum master can help product owners and teams to use them Key principles to use when carrying out the role of the scrum master How to help your product owner to improve How to help your development team to improve Concise techniques for improving your self-effectiveness. Table of Contents Scrum Master 21 Tips to Facilitate and Coach Agile Scrum Teams Introduction About Scrum Section 1: Understanding the Scrum Theory The Three Agile Scrum Concepts Section 2: The Scrum Skeleton, Tools, Scrum Master Roles, and Scrum Master Improvement Techniques Scrum Master Vs A Traditional Project Manager: An In-depth Task Comparison A Day in the Life of a Scrum Master: Typical Impediments and Challenges Scrum Tools Scrum Master Roles: Key Principles to Bear in Mind Scrum Master Roles: How to Improve Product Owner Efficiency Scrum Master Roles: How to Improve the Development Team Mastering Scrum: Scrum Master Tips and Tricks Section 3: 21 Tips for Scrum Mastery Tip 1: Be Knowledgeable and Responsible In Your Role Tip 2: Foster a Fun Working Environment for Your Team Tip 3: Implement Good Engineering Practices Tip 5: Encourage the Team to Stick To the Plan Tip 6: Be a Collaborator Tip 7: Maintain Balance Tip 8: Keep the Team Focused On the Present Sprint Tip 9: Encourage Team Autonomy and Self-Organization Tip 10: Familiarize Yourself with the Work of All Team Members Tip 11: Build Strong Relationships With Other Teams Tip 12: Tame Over-commitment within the Team Tip 13: Note Your Team's Strengths and Weaknesses Tip 14: Respect Your Team's Space Tip 15: Create Cordial Relationships with the Organization Management Tip 16: Respect Time Boxes Tip 17: Encourage Camaraderie Tip 18: Motivate the Team to Reach For the Stars Tip 19: Create A Multi-Skilled Team Tip 20: Coach teams on the Various Scrum Tools Tip 21: Be a 'One-Team' Facilitator whenever possible Conclusion Resources Preview of 'The Scrum Master Mega Pack' Check Out My Other Books Scroll Up To The Top Of The Page And Click The Orange "Buy Now" or "Read For Free" Icon On The Right Side!
Download or read book Impact Mapping written by Gojko Adzic and published by Provoking Thoughts. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to impact mapping, a simple yet incredibly effective method for collaborative strategic planning that helps organizations make an impact with software.
