Posts Tagged ‘scrum master’
A 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 MoreOur 3 Medal-Winning Agile Infographics
Whether it’s in the workplace or on the track field, going for the gold is truly all about Agility.
In the spirit of the 2016 Summer Olympics, we present to you 3 of our favorite 3Back Infographics. Each Infographic is a winner on its own, valiantly earning Gold, Silver and Bronze medal status.
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 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 MoreScaling Scrum with Scrum®, More Sound than SAFe
Scaling Scrum with Scrum, More Sound than SAFe – You’ve mastered using Scrum for your Development Teams; perhaps you are realizing you could use agile methods to regulate your organization’s priorities and products…
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…
Read MoreThe New Year: Celebrating The Ultimate Retrospective and Sprint Goal
Welcoming in the New Year is the epitome of a Scrum-filled holiday experience. If we think of a calendar year as an incredibly long Sprint, then the departure of 2014 and the welcoming of 2015 is the ultimate Retrospective. And those resolutions you make? The ultimate Sprint Goal.
Read MoreThe Scrum Team vs. The Development Team
In Scrum, names matter. They add clarity and help define accountability. Which is why we designed our latest infographic to illustrate the difference in some important names. Scrum Team vs. Development Team.
Read MoreSeven Reasons To Get Your ScrumMaster Certification
The CSM Seven As I think back throughout my life, there have been a lot of certifications along the way. Some of them required, such as the nerve wracking teenage driver’s license, or the nightmare inducing graduate level final exam that I took as a misguided college sophomore. Some of them purely for show, such as…
Read MoreThe Roles of The ScrumMaster
This is an excerpt from Exploring Scrum: The Fundamentals. While the Product Owner is the Team Member who is accountable to the Business for the value of the Team’s Results, the ScrumMaster is accountable to the Business for making sure that Scrum is used correctly, that the Team uses Scrum in a positive way, and…
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