When it comes to Scrum Master success, Ellen likes to look at metrics that indicate if her work is having an impact. She suggests that a simple metric around the quality of the Sprint planning may be enough to assess the success for the Scrum Master.
Featured Retrospective Format for the Week: Cards Against Agility
Ellen developed a game called Cards against Agility based on another popular game. Ellen uses this game as a simple way for the team to blow-off some steam, or as she puts it “trash talk in a fun way”.
About Ellen Santamaria
Ellen is a Scrum Master based in Berlin, and originally from Australia. She completed a Bachelor in Australian and later a Masters in Berlin, Germany where she works.
Ellen is passionate about startups, innovation, social entrepreneurship, new business models, organisational change management, and other topics. She also loves story-based video games, sci-fi, pétanque, and finding new ways of doing things.
You can link with Ellen Santamaria on LinkedIn.
Hi, I really enjoyed the podcast and love the idea of the game, I’ve only played the original game once but I see it could be great fun. But when I tried to access the link from LinkedIn (http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/B9tGGoIVsfMfVi) it did not work, is it possible to have the correct one?
Hi Orlando, When I try the link I can see the slide/PDF page. Sorry about the problem, but I can’t reproduce the problem.
Hello Vasco,
I couldn’t reach the game from the link that was shared. Could you help?
Thanks in advance.
Hey Duygu! 🙂
Thanks for reporting the broken link. Try again, we just updated it! ?
Hello,
on the podcast you said that a link would be included to a Dropbox with the format of theis Retrospective game, however I can´t find it here, clicking on the link “Cards against agility” it sends me to a LinkedIn page but it´s broken.
Any help on this?
Thanks a lot! Your podcast is awesome!