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Den Gabbert - Confessions of a 1st year Scrum Master
- 1. Confessions of a First Year ScrumMaster: A Retrospective September 22, 2015 ScrumDay Twin Cities
- 2. Who’s In The Room?
- 3. This S%!T Is Hard! • Scrum (n): A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest value. Scrum Is: -Lightweight -Simple to understand -Difficult to master © 2014 scrum.Org and Scruminc
- 4. Demand More From Myself • Read & Understand the Scrum Guide - Then Read It Again • Memorize and Know: • Agile Manifesto &12 Agile Principals • The 5 Scrum Values • 3 Pillars for The Empirical Process •
- 5. I Will Always Use A Physical Board! Image of a physical team scrum board
- 6. Same Work In An Online Tool Next 6 slides had a screen capture of the same work shown in an online tool
- 7. Halfway Through The Sprint Image of a physical team scrum board halfway through the sprint.
- 8. Don’t Wait for Your Performance Review (Eliminate if at all possible) & Survey Your Team • Sent Out A 9 Question Survey To The Teams I Served. • All Questions With The Exception Of The 9th Asked People To Rate Me On A Scale Of 1-4 (Avoid A Scale of 1-5). • Share Those Results With The Team(s) And Your Manager.
- 9. Product Owner - #1 • ScrumMasters Need To Know As Much As Possible About This Role So We Can Be Good Coaches. • Creating A Prioritized Product Backlog Is Hard - AND Crucial To Team Success. • Know How Much It Costs To Run The Team - It’s Easy Math.
- 10. Retrospective - Most Important Ceremony • Always Surprised & Impressed With At Least One Thing The Team Brings Up - Something I Would Have Never Known Or Thought Of. • Keep It Fresh - Try Something New Each Time. • Establish A Team Goal For The Upcoming Sprint And Track It On The Board. Talk About It Every Day. If More Than One - Consider a Team Backlog.
- 11. Power of Food • I Didn’t Do Any Research - But I Know That People Are Happier When They Get Fed. • Joe Justice: xTreme Manufacturing Calls Out A “Snack Station” As A Required Component To The Process. • Learn How To Sell It - Especially Lunch For Sprint Planning.
- 12. Serving One Team is WAY Harder Than “Trying” To Serve Two….or Three Hey Brady - YOU SUCK!!
- 13. Hey Brady - You Kinda Sucked Today BUT I know you had to play two games, so I’ll cut you a break
- 14. You Can’t Blame Brady - He’s trying to play THREE games at the same time. How can you expect him to keep everything straight??????
- 15. Metrics Don’t Matter - Until You Let Them • Only Thing That Matters Is Working Software/Product (Principle #7) • Robo Scrum (http://www.rapidscrum.com/RoboScrum/) • For Team Use Only • Fight It - PLEASE
- 16. Take It To The Team • Particularly Important With Team Changes +/- • Saves So Much Time And Worry • Employ Volunteering Whenever Possible • Answer And Outcome Will Always Be Better • Maybe Not What I Wanted - But Better For The Team
- 17. Don’t Be A Hater • Just Do Good Scrum - Shipping Speaks Louder Than Words • Don’t Get Caught Up In The Small Stuff • What If They Are Right?
- 18. Work Towards Transcendence & Team Happiness
- 19. Personal Transcendant Goal I am a practicing ScrumMaster, passionate about serving teams and helping them get their greatest work into the world. I believe Scrum has the power to not only change the world of work, but also change the way people learn, interact and live their every day lives.