What does a Scrum Master do all day? Run events and facilitate meetings? The Scrum Master role has evolved greatly over the last 20 years and now encompasses leadership, coaching, and growing agility through Scrum.
Sharing patterns and practices and driving consistency across the organisation is key to building an organsiationational capability however eventually when we as external consultanst leave, there is always the risk that the organisation will just spring back to their old ways of working. So we set up ZXM Agile Academy to build enduring internal capability.
If your an agile coach, just knowing Agile, or Scrum, or how to set up a Kanban board won’t be enough to get you though the complexities involved in successfully performing the role and being an agile leader. Seek to expand your knowledge and capabilities and practice intentionally as part of your own continuous improvement.
In the face of disruptive change, the ability for executives to mobilise action is paramount. While self-organisation is a key enabler, how do you support and encourage teams to organise themselves without micromanaging them solving every impediment for them?
The Scrum Master doesn’t remove impediments from the team. Their job encompasses 22 wider stances for supporting the team to self-organise to remove impediments themselves, coaching the Product Owner and coaching the wider organisation.
How to look beyond the post-it notes and measure the impact of your Agile Coaches
There are a lot of misconceptions about what an Agile Coach is or isn’t at the moment. Are they the Scrum Master of a team? Does their role include coaching the team or is is something more?
To truly drive cultural and behavioural change takes time. It also takes experience. He’s what effective agile coaches do every Sprint. The list might surprise you.
Agile coaching is not for the faint hearted. Don’t get me wrong, it’s very rewarding, but sometimes it’s difficult when
Teams were bored with their Retrospectives. I was bored. They were just doing mechanical Scrum. Retrospectives are such a powerful tool to drive continuous improvement, so here’s what we did to fix the problem.
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