Brian’s story is enlightening regarding the value of the Definition of Done. A team that had set the DoD bar too high, and chose to not change the DoD. That led to an anti-pattern that had to be untangled by the Scrum Master.
Samantha shares the story of a Scrum Master that had the tendency to lead all the conversations and how she was able to recover from that pattern with a technique she calls “the pregnant pause”.
About Samantha Menzynski and Brian Ziebart
Samantha Menzynski has spent her entire career in software. Starting in support and account management, moving to customer support management, and with Penta’s transformation to Scrum becoming Scrum Master for the Core product team.
You can link with Samantha Menzynski on LinkedIn.
Brian Ziebart started his career in software as a developer, but found himself wanting to move towards coaching and developing people rather than product development. When Penta’s Scrum transformation started in August 2019, he jumped at the opportunity to work more with people while still staying involved with development.
You can link with Brian Ziebart on LinkedIn.
You can read more about Samantha’s and Brian’s work and the Agile transformation they were part of in this Scrum.org blog post.
