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The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

You're reading from   The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook A collection of tips, tricks, and war stories to help the professional ScrumMaster break the chains of traditional organization and management

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849688024
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Scrum – A Brief Review of the Basics (and a Few Interesting Tidbits) FREE CHAPTER 2. Release Planning – Tuning Product Development 3. Sprint Planning – Fine-tune the Sprint Commitment 4. Sprint! Visible, Collaborative, and Meaningful Work 5. The End? Improving Product and Process One Bite at a Time 6. The Criticality of Real-time Information 7. Scrum Values Expose Fear, Dysfunction, and Waste 8. Everyday Leadership for the ScrumMaster and Team 9. Shaping the Agile Organization 10. Scrum – Large and Small 11. Scrum and the Future The ScrumMaster's Responsibilities ScrumMaster's Workshop Index

Which ScrumMaster persona are you?


I put together the following ScrumMaster personas as a way for you to think about the strengths and weaknesses of each. Maybe you can identify with one of them. Think about the advantages and disadvantages of each style; perhaps by doing so you'll find some items to add to your personal improvement backlog.

Techie Taj

Techie Taj has dual responsibilities: he is the lead Java engineer and has also been asked to play the role of the ScrumMaster. He is very smart and loves to speak his mind and give his opinion. As he is busy with technical tasks, Taj rarely gets to work on the impediment backlog for the team, which is full of organizational issues because the company is new at doing Scrum. Other managers often interrupt the team and they aren't doing too well at meeting their sprint commitments as a result. Taj tries to correct this by telling them how to implement the features and to work later hours. His aggressive, schedule-crashing ways are causing the...

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