Role of scrum master
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Tushar Somaiya is the founder of Shuhari Agile and Coaching Dojo, focusing on empowering agile leaders through coaching and training. He emphasizes the importance of the Scrum Master's role in fostering self-organizing teams and highlights essential skills such as servant leadership, facilitation, and conflict resolution. Somaiya also discusses various practices and activities that enhance the effectiveness of Scrum processes and positions the Scrum Master as a pivotal career in agile environments.
Role of scrum master
- 1. – By Tushar Somaiya
- 2. Tushar is founder, director of ShuHaRiAgile, a premium agile training / coaching partner and coachingdojo, a unique community for agile leaders, executive coaches, agile coaches and agile practitioners to share, learn & network. Tushar Somaiya is a passionate certified professional coach who helps executives & teams discover and unleash their true potential. He believes in a democratic organization & self-organizing teams. He calls himself a servant leader. Through his NueroScience based coaching & consulting, he has helped projects and organizations turn agile and become truly high performing teams. He is Results Certified Coach, Certified Transformational Coach, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Professional, Certified System Business Analysts & one of the first 500 PMI-Agile Certified Professional. Tushar has 13 years of IT experience and over 6 years of agile experience. He is known for his fun-filled, hands-on interactive Placeholder for trainings & speeches at prestigious conferences. His blogs have CST been re-published on ScrumAlliance, AgileAtlas & PMHut. He is an active volunteer at ScrumAlliance & PMI Mumbai Chapter. © All Rights Reserved
- 3. Agenda • 3 Roles in Scrum • Role of scrum master • Challenges of a scrum master • Skills, Knowledge & mindset required • Full time or part time? • Future career path of scrum master
- 4. 3 Roles In Scrum
- 5. 3 Roles Product Owner Who decides what we do? Team Who will do it? Scrum Master Who will help us do it? © All Rights Reserved
- 6. Scrum Master Process champion, Change agent, Impediments remover, All Coaches, Protects & guides In true agile spirit team Responsibility? Artifacts? Activities? Qualities? Coaching as leadership style, Coaching, Mentoring, Teaching, Servant leader, Trusts, Challenging, Protecting Resolve conflicts, Expert facilitator © All Rights Reserved
- 7. © All Rights Reserved Activities Of PM
- 8. Challenges Skills & Qualities Required To Be A Good Scrum Mater Are Not Taught Anywhere. Ex: Coaching, Facilitating, Collective Decision Making, Empowering, Servant Leadership etc…
- 9. Leading Without Authority Servant Leader
- 10. Servant Leadership Seek to meet the needs of others © All Rights Reserved
- 11. Change Without Fear Inside And Outside
- 12. Mindset That A Good Scrum Master Requires
- 13. Believing In People & Their Potential People Wake Up Every Morning Wanting To Do Good
- 14. Take It To Team! • What are we trying to achieve? • What are we aiming? • Why are we having this discussion? • Is this important? Useful? How much? • Have you done anything about it yet? What? • When? What was the outcome? • What do you want to do now so that <<vision>>? • What can be done so that <<vision>>? • Who can do it? • Can I help? How? • How do you know it is working? Or not working? © All Rights Reserved
- 15. Being Neutral Detaching Self
- 16. Facilitate Thinking Problem Individual / Team Coach / Scrum Master Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me how to fish and I eat for lifetime. © All Rights Reserved
- 17. Become Connecting Sutra Break Silos, Walk Out Of Comfort Zone, Sometimes Force Others Out Of Their Comfort Zone Too
- 18. Observe, Aware, Coach & Protect Sheep Dog, Being A Mirror
- 19. TAPS Model (Role of SM) Credits: Dr. David Rock © All Rights Reserved
- 20. Domain & Technical Knowledge Without Being Expert T shaped, Broken Comb Shaped
- 21. Skills & Knowledge Maybe even tools and resources
- 22. Facilitation Skills How To Facilitate?
- 23. Daily Stand Ups • Listening OVER take notes • Sign Up OVER assigning task • Get called up OVER calling team to attend • Step back OVER owning the stand up • Re-plan OVER status • Zooming out OVER zooming in • Walk the wall OVER round robin • 4 questions OVER 3 (Can someone help me in ____ ? ) • Make stand ups valuable OVER ice cream meters
- 24. Sprint Planning • Story grooming during previous sprint OVER sprint planning – part 1 • Innovation games OVER requirement analysis • Team drives OVER you driving the meeting • Fist of 5 OVER poker cards • Commitment OVER capacity • Delivering committed value OVER completing committed stories • Stretch and facilitate OVER being timid or over- protecting
- 25. Sprint Review • Making sure that PO/BA/Users attend OVER booking rooms and setup • Challenge PO/BA/Users OVER challenging team • Let team answer questions OVER representing / protecting them • Seek change OVER welcome change • Delight customer OVER satisfy customer • Team defines done OVER you • Pizzas OVER burgers
- 26. Sprint Retro • Safety check OVER assuming • Happiness meter OVER employee satisfaction • Timeline OVER blank memory • Gamestorming OVER Brainstorming • Collective visual thinking OVER individual black box thinking • Collaborative decisions OVER individual priorities • 1 doable action item OVER 10 achievable • Attack tolerated OVER just probing what is needed • Appreciative enquiry OVER feedback
- 27. During The Sprint • Gemba walk OVER waiting in chair • Futurespectives OVER retrospectives • Achievement wall OVER ice cream meters • Coach individual OVER team • Bug bash OVER bug count • Team updates artifacts OVERS you updating • You report OVER team reporting • Celebrate fed-ex days OVER pink day or rose day
- 28. Full Time Or Part Time? Do I need to clarify more?
- 29. You Decide • http://agiletrail.com/2011/11/14/42-tasks-for-a- scrum-masters-job • http://www.noop.nl/2011/09/21-concrete- practices-for-agile-managers-part-2.html • http://www.scrummastermanifesto.org/scrummaste r-manifesto/A_ScrumMaster_Manifesto.html • http://blogs.collab.net/agile/a-scrummasters- checklist • http://scrumalliance.org/articles/194-an-example- scrummasters-checklist
- 30. Career Path Is there a future?
- 31. Scrum Master Is A Career Or Rather Career Maker, Career Changer It is THE future. Once you have the skills and qualities of scrum master mentioned here, believe me, even sky is NOT a limit.
- 32. Thank You Tushar.somaiya@gmail.com @tusharsomaiya +91 – 9869209689 ShuHaRiAgile.com, CoachingDojo.org © All Rights Reserved