ScrumMaster
Zombie Standups (And How to Bring them Back to Life)
Are you Trapped in a Zombie Standup? Do you find yourself tuning out during Standup (Daily Scrum)? Do you feel like everybody’s monotonously reciting laundry list answers to the Three Questions: what you worked on yesterday, what you’re working on today, and…maybe…what impediments you’ve run into? When it’s your turn, do you find yourself facing…
Read MoreA Day In The Life Of A ScrumMaster
The daily life of a ScrumMaster is anything but mundane. Play along with one ScrumMaster as she facilitates, plans, and runs interference all in the name of becoming a Well-Formed Team™.
Read MoreScrum Handbook: Servant Leadership And Scrum Mastering
Scrum Mastering is a servant-leadership role. That’s a given. The phrase servant leader, first coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in his groundbreaking essay, The Servant as Leader, defined the role as focusing “primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong. While traditional leadership generally involves the accumulation and exercise of power by one at the ‘top of the pyramid,’ servant leadership is different.”
Read MoreThe PO and SM: A Match Made in Agile
Every year as the middle of February approaches, our world is taken over by little red hearts, cherubic cupids hoisting arrows and foil wrapped drugstore chocolates. The heavily scented fragrance of Valentine’s Day is in the air. For us at 3Back, even though the holiday has come and gone, our thoughts turn to partnerships that stand the test of time; a Scrummy yin and yang where complementary forces interact to create something great. We think we found it.
Read More2 Very Compelling Reasons To Never Ever Have The Boss Be The ScrumMaster
Boss’s Day is October 16th. Regardless of how you commemorate this Hallmark card-inspired holiday, it goes without saying that the Boss plays a significant role in your Agile work environment. It also goes without saying that being a successful ScrumMaster[1] is hard. The ScrumMaster’s ability to be the eyes and ears of the Team requires a particular skill set.
Read MoreWhy You Don’t (and Can’t) Have a Full-time ScrumMaster
Among the most common impediments facing teams and organizations when they are attempting to adopt Scrum is the lack of a full-time ScrumMaster, Product Owner, Team Members in general, and Team Members with testing expertise in particular.
Read More4 Ways Mothers Truly Are The Mother Lode of ScrumMasters
To say being a mother can be a thankless job merely skims the surface of the realities of the maternal role. It reminds us of another, at times, thankless job we all know: the ScrumMaster. The similarities between the two roles don’t end there.
Read MoreThe PO and SM: A Match Made in Agile
In Scrum, there’s no better example of companion roles than that of the Product Owner and ScrumMaster.
Read MoreWhy the Boss Should Never Be the ScrumMaster
There’s no denying it. Being a successful ScrumMaster is hard work. The ScrumMaster’s ability to be the eyes and ears of the Team requires a particular skill set. As you look at your Team, there may be several people who come to mind to fill this position. One thing is for sure. The Boss, Big…
Read MoreA Day in the Life of a Scrum Master Infographic
The daily life of a ScrumMaster is anything but mundane. Play along with one ScrumMaster as she facilitates, plans and runs interference all in the name of becoming a Well-Formed Team.
Read MoreThe 7 Facets to Being the Best Scrum Master
What are the 7 facets for being the best Scrum Master? The Scrum Master is seldom a ‘Master of Scrum’; but their primary responsibility is to help the Scrum Team improve its use of Scrum. This isn’t simply for Scrum’s sake; it’s because the Team needs to get better at doing what the Product Owner…
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