How Can you Measure the Impact of your Scrum Masters?
Have you been wondering how you can measure the impact of your Scrum Masters? And how these Scrum Masters or Agile coaches can really help with the bottom-line result? Working with agile or Scrum generally means having several Scrum Masters in place, but can you measure their effectiveness and impact. If so, read this article by Peter Koning:
https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/how-can-you-measure-impact-your-scrum-masters
The 9 stances of an Agile Coach
Inspired by Barry Overeem’s whitepaper The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master, Ralitsa Parusheva decided to frame the Agile Coach role through the lens of the stance he or she is applying in a particular context.
Read the full article here: https://medium.com/@ruparusheva/the-9-stances-of-an-agile-coach-799072302092
Xebia Academy Video Trainings
Watch the 2020 Webinar week videos here: https://community.xebia.academy/all-courses
Coaching vragen voor product owners
- Als je 25% van je huidige Product Backlog zou MOETEN schrappen, welke items zou je dan laten gaan? En waarom doe je dat dan niet daadwerkelijk?”
The Wisdom of Geese – How to Improve Team Performance
De 10 beste vragen aan je team
Natuurlijk is er geen standaard lijstje van de beste vragen en is ieder team en ieder vraagstuk in een team uniek. Vanuit Loes van Luijk haar teamcoachervaring en opleidingen heeft ze wel krachtige vragen ontdekt die zij als teamcoach vaker inzet.
- Wanneer hebben we een goed overleg gehad?
- Wat gebeurt hier eigenlijk?
- Wat heb je nodig van ons?
- Wie of wat heeft er last van als we dit oplossen?
- Stel jullie belangrijkste opdrachtgever komt nu binnenlopen, wat zou die dan zien?
- Zou iemand de ondertiteling aan kunnen zetten?
- Wat hebben we allemaal al in huis om dit op te lossen?
- Wat wordt er vergeten?
- Als er een vannacht een wonder gebeurt, hoe zouden jullie dan morgen samenwerken?
Lees het volledige artikel hier: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/de-10-beste-vragen-aan-je-team-loes-van-luijk/
The (surprising) 9 most common challenges that Product Owners face, and affect their Scrum Teams
- The PO doesn’t have enough time
- The PO doesn’t have the right skills and I’m expected to train him/her
- The PO can’t create a Release plan (or other critical artifacts for that role, like Vision or Product Backlog)
- The PO does not engage with the team and ends up working alone
- The team suffers from slow feedback and the PO doesn’t get the feedback they need either
- The PO does not feel empowered to make decisions
- The PO serves many teams and/or has many roles
- The PO is a micro-manager and wants to control everything that happens
- The PO needs to serve and align with too many stakeholders
Read the complete post and listen to the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast here: https://scrum-master-toolbox.org/2018/11/blog/the-surprising-9-most-common-challenges-that-product-owners-face-and-affect-their-scrum-teams/
Change Agent Map – Transforming the Agile Coaching Competency Framework
One of the most valuable tools has been the Agile Coaching Competency Framework [PDF], created by Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins.
Based on this, Jordann Gross created the Change Agent Map, read all about it here: http://agileety.com/change-agent-map
Myth: The Scrum Master is a Junior Agile Coach
A great article where Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem bust the myth that a Scrum Mastere is just a Junior Agile Coach. Read it here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/myth-the-scrum-master-is-a-junior-agile-coach-9defb2dd6def