How to introduce myself as a Scrum Master in an existing team?

Some questions you could ask yourself are:

  • Does the team know Agile, the Scrum framework?
  • What is the composition of the team?
  • What motivates the members?
  • What are the common goals of the team?
  • How about the values of the team?
  • Is there a history that we need to know before joining the team?
  • Would you start with a kick off / retrospective where the team would explain their pains and where we could discuss way of working?

Five Fundamental Questions to Assess your Agile Process

Barry Overeem writes about the five fundamental questions to assess you agile process in this article: https://medium.com/the-liberators/five-fundamental-questions-to-assess-your-agile-process-376b9230c7d8

  1. Value. Do we know the value we seek to deliver and are we consistently delivering the maximum value?
  2. Flow. Do we understand how we reach that value and are we consistently reducing the time and/or increasing the ease by which we reach it?
  3. Quality. Do we understand how good our product and workmanship needs to be and are we consistently and demonstrably achieving it?
  4. Joy. Do we know what we collectively and individually need to be joyful and are we consistently meeting those needs?
  5. Continuous Improvement. Do we know what we need to improve across value, flow, quality and joy and are we demonstrably pursuing those improvements?

7 Key Factors for Scaling Agile in Large Organizations

Agile adoption has grown from a small number of agile teams within an organization to many agile teams, larger teams, and entire organizations themselves, bringing a new set of challenges and complexities. Regardless of the framework, some important factors play a major role in making large-scale agile adoption successful. Here are seven aspects you should consider when scaling agile across an organization.

  1. Executive leadership support
  2. Knowledge acquisition
  3. Engineering excellence
  4. Tools and infrastructure
  5. Communities of practice
  6. Integrating nonsoftware teams
  7. Agile champions and change agents

Read the complete article here: https://www.agileconnection.com/article/7-key-factors-scaling-agile-large-organizations

How to Deal with Bad Scrum User Stories as a ScrumMaster

It is common in the early stages of Scrum implementation for there to be misunderstandings about what User Stories are for and what makes them useful. A ScrumMaster’s task is to be able to help the Team and Product Owner when they are faced with ineffective User Stories as they go into Sprint Planning.

Read the complete article here: https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2019/01/deal-with-bad-scrum-user-stories-as-a-scrummaster.html