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Tim was faced with a problem. How to be a leader without any formal power. All Scrum Masters and Product Owners who have felt the responsibility, but not any “line authority” have faced the same problem. You need to help move the project along, but you can’t tell people what to do!
In this episode we explore the concept of Lateral Leadership how it can help you as a Scrum Master or Product Owner.
Tim Herbig is the author of Lateral Leadership a recent book published by Sense and Respond Press.
In this episode, Kimberley explains how she uses the Squad Health Check with her teams, and how that drives her to reach a successful outcome with the teams that she works with.
Listen in to learn about the changes Kimberley applied to the now famous Spotify Squad Health Check, based on her own experience.
In this episode, we explore “The 3 Little Pigs” retrospective. A fun way to help the teams talk about the no-so-good things without the pressure or the judgment of other formats.
About Kimberley Miller
During the day, Kimberley is the Scrum Master at Hudl with over 5 years of experience in helping to implement Scrum in both software companies and standard business units. Kimberley is also an actress on stage and film, with a Masters in Performance from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
You can link with Kimberley Miller on LinkedIn and connect with Kimberley Miller on Twitter.
As Scrum Masters we deal with many dynamics and problems in the organizations we work with. That’s why, here at Oikosofy, we’ve been building a mini-library for you. In this post by Vasco Duarte, we explore 5 tools that every Scrum Master should be familiar with. We cover the following toolboxes:
And in today’s live Facebook event for Scrum Masters we will discuss these tools and answer questions on the tools we have described on that post.
If you can’t join us on the Facebook live event for Scrum Masters, don’t worry. We will be making a recording available. Just sign-up below to make sure you get notified when it is available.
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Start with the team! Paru asks us to consider the team when looking at the overall system. We can use the Squad Health Check (also the Atlassian version) survey or some other similar tool to understand how the system is influencing the performance of the team. As we go through the questions, then consider how the external (to the team) factors may be influencing the team. Listen in to learn how Paru uses these tools and other tools to help understand the system around the team.
About Paru Madhavan
Paru works as Scrum Master across two squads at OFX. She’s worked in Agile teams and in various roles such as Business Analyst, Product Owner and Scrum Master since 2011. To her, Agile and software development just go hand in hand!
You can link with Paru Madhavan on LinkedIn and connect with Paru Madhavan on Twitter.
In this Bonus episode, Gunther introduces an approach that he has developed over the years, to help companies that are struggling with Scrum in particular or Agile in general. But before that, we have a very interactive conversation about some key questions for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches.
We start by reviewing some of the biggest and most common struggles that companies face when adopting Agile. In this question, we not only review the most common obstacles, but we also tackle the true origin of Scrum and Agile. Why it is there, and what are the promises of this way of working that get forgotten in many of the Agile adoptions in the world. Scrum, specifically was created to improve the quality of the workplaces where it is used. But is that idea followed in practice?
Many organizations start from the point of view that Scrum is a way for teams to work. That is far from the truth, according to Gunther. Scrum is a whole organization way of working, with the PO (product Owner) role being an example of a role that transcends the team focus and works with the whole organization to help create an understanding of value that ultimately gets translated into the team’s work backlog. Gunther points to the biggest silo of them all, as an example of how we misunderstand Scrum: the silo between “business” and IT.
How do we remove obstacles to the successful adoption of Scrum? With a specific approach to Scrum adoption that Gunther shares with us. This is an approach that he has developed over the years and reflects the patterns of successful adoption he’s seen. He calls this approach the “Scrum Zone”.
Once the major obstacles to adoption are overcome, we then need to understand where to take Scrum in our organizations to make it a core productive engine for our businesses. This is what Gunther calls “Reversify, re-imagining your organization”: make it a productive engine, a core of value production that aligns the whole organization. This is an approach that Gunther has been developing over the last few years and shares with us in this unique BONUS episode about the future of Scrum.
During this episode we mention several resources. Here’s a list for your reference.
About Gunther Verheyen
Gunther left consulting in 2013 to partner with Ken Schwaber, Scrum co-creator, at Scrum.org. He represented Ken and Scrum.org in Europe. Gunther left Scrum.org in 2016 to continue his journey of Scrum as an independent Scrum Caretaker.
He calls himself a connector, writer, speaker, humaniser. Gunther assists, serves, advices teams, individuals and executives.
Gunther believes that Scrum – the most applied software development framework – will not only increase the value that software delivers to organizations but is also a way to re-humanise the workplace for people. Gunther likes to inspire individuals, teams, departments, and organizations to realize their potential.
Beyond Scrum, Gunther is all about his family, life, books, and music. He communicates in Dutch and in English. Gunther is co-creator to Agility Path and the Nexus framework for Scaled Professional Scrum.
You can link with Gunther Verheyen on LinkedIn and connect with Gunther Verheyen on Twitter.
