Scrum mastery toolkit
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The document outlines a Scrum Mastery Toolkit presented by Pelumi Olajide, focusing on enhancing team performance through transparency, inspection, and adaptation. It identifies common symptoms of dysfunctional teams and provides tools to cultivate Scrum values such as commitment, focus, respect, courage, and openness. The toolkit emphasizes experiential learning to improve team dynamics and productivity, encouraging leaders to create an environment where these values can flourish.
Scrum mastery toolkit
- 2. Pelumi Olajide, CSP The mind is your most powerful resource. Pelumi works with clients to • Expose limiting beliefs that stop growth • Unlearn bad practices • Grow and reinvent themselves
- 3. SESSION OBJECTIVES Expose myths around transparency, inspection and adaptation Discuss simple tools that can help build teams that exhibit scrum values Create an environment to help you learn from the experiences of others Provide tools to identify team dysfunctions
- 4. • What was your last experience at the doctor’s office? • What did you see, hear, taste, feel and smell? • Did your experience impact your decision to return? ❖ Like a doctor, we can observe the different symptoms that will then indicate which doctor referral or TOOLS will help restore health ❖ Empiricism is about experiencing and seeing our world through perception that comes from our five senses
- 5. 3 Pillars of Empiricism Process Control 1 Doctor Transparency 3 Doctor Adaptation 2 Doctor Inspection A good team leader builds the team on transparency, inspection, and adaptation With the three pillars the team can survive and continuously grow
- 6. SCRUM VALUES
- 7. OPTIMIZING TEAM PERFORMANCE Show of hands if your team exhibits all 5 scrum values consistently? A great leader can detect the absence of a value and is willing to serve the team by creating an environment for all five values to be exhibited.
- 9. Symptoms of dysfunctional on team: 1) Team members commit to one thing but doing another thing 2) Team members are not honest about deliverables 3) Information is held on to, until the last day of the sprint 4) Team members don't pull work rather work is pushed on them 5) No one knows "why" or the business value associated to the work items assigned 6) Low trust on the team 7) No focus is exhibited in a sprint due to lack of prioritization
- 10. What symptoms do you observe? Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation 1)What symptoms do you observe on your team? 2) Write down at least three different symptoms on a sticky (one symptom per sticky) 3) Share it with others on your table
- 11. Doctor Transparency "THERE IS A METHOD TO THE MADNESS" -SHAKESPEAR IN HAMLET PLAY SHARE IT Doctor transparency sheds light and zooms in on the method to the madness. Transparency is about sharing to build trust.
- 12. TRANSPARENCY - COMMITMENT PILL • Helps teams commit transparently • Builds trust on the team • Enables innovation • Builds partnership "Commitment is what transforms a promise to reality" -Abraham Lincoln Done is better than perfect -Sheryl Sandberg PILLS = TOOLS RESULTS
- 13. TOOLS FOR ESTABLISHING COMMITTMENT ❖ Team agreements published, emphasized and updated ❖ Defined sprint goals ❖ Committed sprint backlog TEAM PRODUCT OWNER TEAM SERVANT LEADER ❖ Co-Creates accessible, visible, prioritized backlog ❖ Co-Creates release plan ❖ Communicate priority ❖ Shares the ”why" and business value ❖ Serves, inspires, stays curious, exhibits presence ❖ Facilitates the commitment in sprint planning and daily scrum. ❖ Removes impediments and mirror progress during the sprint cycle.
- 14. TRANSPARENCY - FOCUS PILL •Mirrors what’s most important •Enables mindful commitment •Increases predictability •Increases understanding Transparency requires visibility, which seeds collaboration and alignment. -John Doerr Less is more. Where more is no good -Frank Lloyd Wright
- 15. TOOLS FOR ESTABLISHING FOCUS ❖ Visible burn down and storyboards ❖ Daily Scrum focus on completing the sprint goal ❖ Planning and refinement to collaborate on upcoming work TEAM PRODUCT OWNER TEAM SERVANT LEADER ❖ Share product vision ❖ Share product road map ❖ User story mapping ❖ Identify and reduce distractions to the team ❖ Teach team members accountability ❖ Facilitate to help the team stay on topic with powerful questions
- 16. TRANSPARENCY - RESPECT PILL •Increases engagement •Promotes trust •Breaks down silos •Increases team work
- 17. TOOLS FOR ESTABLISHING RESPECT ❖ Encourage open dialog ❖ Extend trust ❖ Listen to understand ❖ Curious questions ❖ Celebrate individual competencies ❖ Exercise presence TEAM PRODUCT OWNER TEAM SERVANT LEADER ❖ Consult with the team on estimates and timelines ❖ Seek opportunities to interact with the team ❖ Attend core meetings: refinement, review and planning meetings ❖ Listen to the team ❖ Request permission and consult with the team ❖ Create space for the team to learn and experiment. ❖ Encourage creativity
- 18. TRANSPARENCY - COURAGE PILL •Boost innovation •Encourages self organization •Encourages balanced workload •Promotes achievement of goals
- 19. TOOLS FOR ESTABLISHING COURAGE ❖ Pull the work vs assign ❖ Define sprint goal ❖ Self organize ❖ Ask for help TEAM PRODUCT OWNER TEAM SERVANT LEADER ❖ Partner with the business and project stakeholders ❖ Collaborate with the team on timelines that support quality and business needs ❖ Listen to the team ❖ Push for courageous decisions ❖ Create safe to fail environment ❖ Be vulnerable – share failures ❖ Stand with the team through adversity
- 20. TRANSPARENCY - OPENNESS PILL Openness is “an active sharing, revealing, listening, understanding and responding process.” (Source: Schein & Schein, Humble Leadership) • Creates safety to share good and bad • Improves communication of impediments • Encourages transparency of progress
- 21. TOOLS FOR ESTABLISHING OPENNESS ❖ Ask for help quickly ❖ Demo to PO frequently ❖ Have fun ❖ Organize team building events TEAM PRODUCT OWNER TEAM SERVANT LEADER ❖ Participation in the inspection and feedback process ❖ Accept user stories ❖ Participate in team building events ❖ Utilize retrospective for fun and team building ❖ Be open to feedback and change ❖ Create a safe environment for the team openness
- 22. What tools do you use ? Enable Transparency
- 23. Doctor Inspection “Bad news early is better than bad news late” SHARE IT
- 24. ❖ Scheduled Sprint Review ❖ Scheduled Retrospectives ❖ System testing and User Acceptance testing ❖ Goal-Question-Measure (GQM) Team assessment. ❖ Introspection ❖ Shared Vision and goals ❖ Shared review agendas ❖ DoR and DoD ❖ Prioritize backlog ❖ Plan, Do, Check, Act ❖ Create awareness and accountability ❖ Acknowledge the team ❖ Utilize impact feedback ❖ Demonstrate empathy INSPECTION TOOLS COMMITMENT FOCUS RESPECT
- 25. ❖ Build the right product, the right way with the right tools ❖ Listen to the voice of the customer ❖ Handle conflict well ❖ Be open to change ❖ Ask for help and offer help ❖ Share progress with all stakeholders ❖ Be open to other ideas INSPECTION TOOLS COURAGE OPENNESS
- 26. What tools do you use ? Enable Inspection
- 28. ❖ Responding to change over following a plan ❖ Transparency of work status ❖ Quality focus ❖ Short sprints 1-4 weeks ❖ Objectives and key results (OKRs) ❖ MVP ❖ Continuous improvement ❖ People over Processes/Tools ❖ Negotiation tools ❖ Welcome and implement change using ADKAR model ❖ Conversations, Feedback and Recognition (CFR Model) ADAPTATION TOOLS COMMITMENT FOCUS RESPECT
- 29. ❖ Stretch goals ❖ Scrumathon and Hackathons to create new innovative apps ❖ Spikes ❖ DevOps and continuous delivery expansion ❖ Clarify expectations ❖ Increase the speed of trust ❖ Dependency mapping ❖ Handle dependencies openly ❖ Visible information radiators ADAPTATION TOOLS COURAGE OPENNESS
- 30. ACTIVITY You will need: 1. Sticky Notes 2. A Pen 3. Get the sticky notes with symptoms you wrote 4. Pick a number from 1-3 Time: 10 mins per station Step 1: Based on your number, go to the station 1, 2 or 3 Step 2: Add your symptoms stickies to the related value that is violated. Step 3: Discuss at least two tools you could use to make the experience better for all values Step 4: After 10 mins move to the next station. From 1-2, 2-3,3-1. Repeat steps 1 to 3 for each station
- 31. 5 min activity Gallery Walk Instruction: 1. Visit all three stations 2. Discover what tools were added by other groups
- 32. pelumi@growingmindllc.com THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING QUESTIONS pmppelumi Growing-mind-llc www.growingmindllc.com
Editor's Notes
- #7: My top five tools
- #9: What scrum value would you like your scrum team to practice more? https://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/Ih4xHBByoL1m3ODIifflp
- #11: 5 mins
- #16: Distractions are things that take any team member away from committed team work.
- #18: Present in the room. Not in Italy. Share absences as needed..imple roman vote to check with the team before taking a corrective action
- #20: SM can ask a simple question like “ what would you like to work on in this sprint?”
- #23: 5 mins. Teach Back
- #25: quarterly, biannually that include introspection and developing action items in yhe form of experiments
- #26: Courage to adjust to feedback provided during retrospective and DEmodeveloping action items in yhe form of experiments
- #27: 5 mins. Teach Back
- #29: quarterly, biannually that include introspection and developing action items in yhe form of experiments
- #30: Courage to adjust to feedback provided during retrospective and DEmodeveloping action items in yhe form of experiments