Paulo Rebelo Archives - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast

Paulo Rebelo on How the Perceived Status of the Scrum Master Role Affects Scrum Masters

The role of Scrum Master is not yet a fully developed and recognized role in the Software industry. This has an impact on how people find (or not) their motivation to excel in that role.

In this episode, we talk about cultures that place a lot of value on the status of a Job Title, and how that affects the motivation of people that take up the Scrum Master role.

About Paulo Rebelo

Paulo Rebelo helps companies to improve using agile and lean principles like Scrum, XP, and Kanban. He currently works at Blackhawk Network in the U.S., helping teams succeed by building great products. His background is a developer, Scrum Master, product owner, project manager, and coach. Paulo is a CSP, CSPO and a CSM from the Scrum Alliance and PMP from the PMI.

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Paulo Rebelo Shares 2 Critical Aspects for our Success as Scrum Masters

In this episode, we explore 2 aspects of our success as Scrum Masters that Paulo developed in his career. These are simple aspects of success that, if we pay attention, can directly improve how we reflect on our work, and help us find better ways to help our teams.

Featured Retrospective Format for the Week: The Happiness Radar

Sometimes we need to help the team find the improvements that are not obvious. In this episode, Paulo shares a retrospective format that focuses on helping the team find the problems that affect their well-being, and how that can help find improvement ideas. This week The Happiness Radar is our featured retrospective format.

About Paulo Rebelo

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Paulo Rebelo on How Scrum Values can help trigger a change process

As Paulo started helping this company in their Agile adoption he noticed that, even if the company was “doing” Scrum, they were missing some critical aspects.

Listen in to learn how Paulo helped this company find a better way to adopt Scrum, using the Scrum Values as the anchor to the change.

About Paulo Rebelo

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Paulo Rebelo: Helping a Product Owner change from long specifications to User Stories

As Scrum Masters we don’t just work with the team, we also work directly with the Product Owners that support the team. In this story, Paulo shares the case of the Product Owner that had a Business Analysis background and thought the job was about writing specifications in isolation. Listen in to learn how Paulo handled that and helped the Product Owner transition to User Stories and more team interaction.

Featured Book of the Week: Management 3.0 by Jurgen Appelo

In Management 3.0 by Jurgen Appelo, Paulo found a management model that better suited his goal to become a Scrum Master. By reading this book he learned about how he could become a better servant leader. A key aspect of the Scrum Master role.

About Paulo Rebelo

You can link with Paulo Rebelo on LinkedIn and connect with Paulo Rebelo on Twitter.

Paulo Rebelo on How Scrum Masters can Cope With Intrusive Team Managers

When we come into work with a team, the first thing we must be aware of is the type and number of stakeholders that we will be dealing with.

In this episode, Paulo presents a story of a team that he was supposed to help, but the stakeholders started messing up with the team, making his work, as Scrum Master, much harder.

Listen in to learn about how to deal with particularly intrusive team managers. Something that we will all need to face, sooner or later.

About Paulo Rebelo

You can link with Paulo Rebelo on LinkedIn and connect with Paulo Rebelo on Twitter.