Beyond Removing Impediments: Scrum Master as Team Coach Image by Pictofigo
Allison Pollard Agile Coach and Consultant Certified Professional Co-Active Coach Help people discover and develop their agile instincts DFW Scrum user group leader and Dallas Agile Leadership Network member Glasses wearer
Today’s presentation What does “Scrum Master as Team Coach” mean? What is a high performing team? What tools can you use to coach a team to become high performing? Images by Pictofigo
The Scrum Master role VERY different from being a Project Manager Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and followed Servant leader The Scrum Master acts as the team’s coach ! Images by Pictofigo
Building a high performing team Self-organizing Cross-functional Accountable as a team Striving for AWESOME The Scrum Master reinforces the “team” mentality Images by Pictofigo
The High Performance Tree G e t a s t o n i s r h e s i n u g l t s eam that can Committed to T do anything Believe they can team success solve any problem Get the right Owns its decisions business value Consensus-driven Constructive & commitments disagreement Empowered Self-organizing Get business value Room for team & rust motivates them T individual growth faster respect commitment focus
Activity: Think about your current team Draw more roots to the values that are present in your team Color in the fruits for the benefits that are present in your team Images by Pictofigo
How to use the tree with your team Project kick-offs Retrospectives Review the values, characteristics Have the team evaluate the and benefits strength of the values, benefits in the team Define working agreements Images by Pictofigo
Coaching skill: asking questions Not about eliciting more information for the Scrum Master Provoke the team to think, feel, or react differently about the issue at hand The Scrum Master’s job is to stay curious Images by Pictofigo
What makes a question Powerful? Open-ended Move the team forward to what it desires rather than ask for justification Not leading to a particular answer Reflect active listening Images by Pictofigo
Activity: Form pairs and decide who will be the Coach first and who will be the Client The Client will talk about his/her team The Coach can only ask powerful questions Images by Pictofigo
What did you learn? Images by Pictofigo
Scrum Master as Team Coach Use metaphors to describe abstract concepts and feelings 1. Use powerful questions to invite discovery, clarity, and action 2. Practice these tools with your team to coach them to high performance Images by Pictofigo
Resources Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins Images from Pictofigo, www.pictofigo.com
Contact allison.pollard@improving.com @allison_pollard www.allisonpollard.com Images by Pictofigo
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