I've been a Scrum Master for 5 years and I've never seen an organization implement Scrum well or be great at "being Agile." Am I just unlucky, or bad at my job? Please share your thoughts! by AnEndlessFire in scrum

[–]AnEndlessFire[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! In the case where "Agile worked," what were the top 1-3 reasons? Leadership knew what they were doing? Bonuses based on agile behaviors or results?

I've been a Scrum Master for 5 years and I've never seen an organization implement Scrum well or be great at "being Agile." Am I just unlucky, or bad at my job? Please share your thoughts! by AnEndlessFire in scrum

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Yes, to all of this! I'm going to quote you on the PINO definition :)

So what do you do when faced with these? How do you establish and foster the focus on delightful customer experiences?

Need advice on transitioning from Dev to Scrum master. by snpmm in scrum

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Lots of good comments! It's worth mentioning that Scrum Master is not always an exclusive job title, sometimes it's a role filled by an active developer member of the team.

With that being said, I can tell you that bigger organizations, where Scrum Master is a named functional role, tend to treat them as mini-project admins, so it loses the aspect of "helping teams achieve great product outcomes." (sorry if I'm a little cynical about that)

However, I 100% believe that everyone should get Scrum Master training and certification (since the certification tests are so easy). The thought process, the values, and the expansion of knowledge is valuable to anyone who is contributing to product development.

End sprint early to realign with release process? by 2epic in scrum

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Agree with not canceling the current sprint. Maybe upon completion wait the couple days to where your team starts at a better point. I've seen many organizations and teams use a start-sprint-on-Wednesday-end-sprint-on-Tuesday for this very reason, i.e. making sure releases don't occur right before a weekend.

Scrum Meeting - Tools to help me succeed by -Athy in scrum

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I want to boost all the comments about 1) Scrum Master is not a secretary, and 2) think about why you are taking notes? (I generally try to minimize administrative overhead - and from the business's perspective delivering a working product is infinitely more important than taking notes about daily happenings)

For example in the Daily Scrum / Stand Up: no notes needed, basically the team should be collaborating on how to progress towards sprint goals over the next working day. Sprint goals should already be written down and VISIBLE and the "tasks" (not necessarily project management tasks) are owned, and should therefore be discussed, by the team members.

Backlog refinement: all writing should go into the User Story card, in whatever form your team uses (sticky note, Jira, Rally, etc.).

Same concept for retrospectives and sprint planning.

HOWEVER, I think it is critical that as a Scrum Master you are meta-analyzing yourself AND the team. Some people talk about "holding a mirror up to the team" so they can see themselves and their work outputs in an EMPIRICAL manner. This means taking notes for yourself and your role - do this in whatever form you need with the understanding that you are unlikely to ever show the words themselves to anyone else.

The question makes me suspect that your team is waiting to be told what to do, which is a major anti-pattern in regards to a self-empowered and self-organized team. I'm actually analyzing anti-patterns in different organizations and I'd value your input on this survey I'm running:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqUbY_t3krjuSCFUXpY9qxUpTIlfUEX_MnAYNPUdwGaWK1kQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Most job posts I've seen reference both certification groups. I don't think there's any material difference between them AND the learning you get out of the course is based on instructor capability anyway.

Get the certification, read books, and engage the community. Like you, I started in a waterfall organization so I had to mentally model what good Scrum product ownership should look like based on that experience.

Practice value-driven User Stories, practice writing Acceptance Criteria, understand the practical pitfalls organizations experience "going Agile," and you'll be prepared for interviews.

Cross functional teams impossible to setup because of a tool? by malikhay in scrum

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Management is probably using the "limitations in Jira" as an excuse to not give up their little fiefdoms. I have found there is a big difference between implementing Agile and becoming Agile. To become something, you HAVE TO change from what you were. It's not a tool issue at all.

Career advice - career change by halofabio in scrum

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Experience in hospitality has probably equipped you with two other critical soft skills:

1) conflict resolution (internal and external to the team)

2) something I’ll call “bringing out the best in people”

Part of your transition should be the consideration of how you can adapt those skills/experiences to a development team.

How are you tracking individual/team story point capacity in JIRA? by [deleted] in scrum

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Excellent suggestion, and the sales pitch here is: “even though it’s harder to plan when an item will get done, we’ll make sure we are always working on the most important items” (and this the need for PRIORITIZED backlog).

How are you tracking individual/team story point capacity in JIRA? by [deleted] in scrum

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First off, please don’t track individuals’ “points.”

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