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Andrew Hudson how organizations help or hinder collaboration at the team level

Collaboration is an often used work to explain how teams can reach their goals. So much so, that we, as Scrum Masters, very often work on improving collaboration. However, collaboration is really a series or trade-offs. In this episode we explore the organizational forces that help or hinder collaboration in our teams.

About Andrew Hudson

Andy is a Scrum Master within the Media industry. He’s passionate about making work a motivating, enjoyable and empowering place to be. He wants to help teams and individuals reach their full potential and believes developing the right vision and mindset is more valuable to effective teams than any process or framework.

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Andrew Hudson invites you to investigate success

Andrew shares his simple recipe for defining and working towards a successful outcome for our work as Scrum Masters.

We discuss how context is important for our definition of success and how goals help us strive for our own improvement. In the end the invitation is simple: investigate success!

Featured Retrospective Format for the Week: Coaching during Retrospectives

Andrew shares two possible retrospective formats for different purposes. The first is the constellation retrospective format which we reviewed in previous episodes.

The second is the use of retrospectives as a coaching opportunity for Scrum Masters. In this episode Andrew describes his approach and experience with the coaching retrospectives.

About Andrew Hudson

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Andrew Hudson on growing teams beyond the 7+-2 size

Inevitably, successful teams will grow over time. The product grows, the requests keep coming in, and we need more people to be able to attend to all the needs of the customers, and the business.

But how should we handle the situation when the team grows beyond the manageable 7+-2 size?

In this episode we discuss possible options of how to handle the team size, and what to do when the team is already too big to be a single team.

About Andrew Hudson

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Andrew Hudson on the importance of surfacing and tackling conflict before it is too late

Andrew introduces the Scrum Values and how many team-related anti-patterns come from not following those values. We also discuss the importance of enabling and helping surface difficult conversations before it is too late, and things turn sour.

In this episode, we refer to the interview with Karin Tenelius on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast.

Featured Book of the Week: Drive by Daniel Pink

The book Drive by Daniel Pink reminds us that what drives human behavior is not exactly what we expect. Rewarding has an impact, but that impact is limited, and the rewards matter. Daniel Pink explores the sources of motivation and engagement in this book. Purpose, Autonomy and Mastery come out as the most important aspects we must attend to as Scrum Masters.

About Andrew Hudson

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Andrew Hudson how to find your groove as a Scrum Master

After a successful assignment with one team, Andy moved on and started work with a new team. However, things were not as easy, or as simple as he expected. In this episode we talk about how every new team is a new experience, and we need to find our groove, rhythm and approach as Scrum Masters, to ensure that we are not surprised by the differences between teams and contexts.

Learning to adapt to new organizations, and new teams is a key skill for Scrum Masters and we discuss how we can do that.

About Andrew Hudson

You can link with Andrew Hudson on LinkedIn and connect with Andrew Hudson on Twitter.