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"This book is a friendly and conversational partner for today’s Scrum Master.
Ryan and Todd have identified some of the most common anti-patterns that result in bad experiences and less-than-optimal outcomes with Scrum--and encourage teams to face them with practical tools and humor."
Broken Scrum practices limit your organization’s ability to take full advantage of the agility Scrum should bring: The development team isn’t cross-functional or self-organizing, the product owner doesn’t get value for their investment, and stakeholders and customers are left wondering when something—anything—will get delivered. Learn how experienced Scrum masters balance the demands of these three levels of servant leadership, while removing organizational impediments and helping Scrum teams deliver real-world value. Discover how to visualize your work, resolve impediments, and empower your teams to self-organize and deliver using advanced coaching and facilitation techniques that honor and support the Scrum values and agile principles.
A Scrum Master needs to know when their team is in trouble and understand how to help them get back on the path to delivery. Become a better Scrum master so you can find the problems holding your teams back. Has your Daily Scrum turned in to a meeting? Does your team struggle with creating user stories? Are stakeholders disengaged during Sprint Review? These issues are common. Learn to use empiricism as your guide and help your teams create great products.
Scrum is so much more than a checklist of practices to follow, yet that’s exactly how many organizations practice it. Bring life back to your Scrum events by using advanced facilitation techniques to leverage the full intelligence of your team. Improve your retrospectives with new formats and exercises. Ask powerful questions that spark introspection and improvement. Get support and buy-in from management. Use Scrum as a competitive advantage for your organization. Create a definition of done that improves quality and fix failing sprints.
Take the next step on your journey as a Scrum master. Transform your Scrum practices to help your teams enjoy their work again as they deliver high quality products that bring value to the world.
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Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, often says that Scrum takes a moment to understand and a lifetime to master. Scrum isn’t hard to understand, but applying it is difficult because the environments in which Scrum plays are complex. People, organizations, business problems, suppliers, predefined processes, and behavioral norms all seem to work against this simple framework. In this book, Todd and Ryan provide practical remedies to these problems. They focus on ways that you can make your use of Scrum better, not because Scrum is important, but because–when applied well–Scrum can help you change the world. Scrum on!
Fixing your Scrum identifies numerous ani-patterns that I’ve seen in my long career of helping organizations transform and change and become more Agile. I’ve found that identifying the ani-patterns that are present in an organization helps get them back on track quickly. I wish I’d had this playbook to give to clients before working with them and to leave with then after. You’ll see your organization and yourself in a lot of the examples in this book. Use its advice to ensure that you’re inspecting and adapting your practices to make them better.
Ryan’s and Todd’s book is filled with practical solutions you can use to fix your Scrum. Every day, Scrum Masters come to me asking for practical ideas they can quickly put into practice, and that’s exactly the kind of advice that Ryan and Todd have put together for this actionable, takeaway-oriented book. It’s a must read for all Scrum Masters who want to continuously improve their practice. Read it and then put it into practice!
Scrum: So few instructions, yet so many misunderstandings. Ryan and Todd offer you a multitude of ways to get your Scrum back on track. Not for the sake of Scrum or “theory,” but for the sake of addressing real-world problems. Use their combined experiences and expertise to remove long-lived obfuscation and fix your Scrum.
As an agile coach, I encounter Scrum done poorly all the time. It’s not doing or not doing Scrum that bothers me the most. It’s that, by doing it poorly, the team (or organization) isn’t achieving the great promises associated with doing it well. In other words, they’re missing the results and the impact. Ryan and Todd’s book has become my go-to initial action for those organizations – handing them the book and telling them to read and apply the simple yet powerful advice within. It does a masterful job of helping teams to fix their Scrum. Now I only hope it doesn’t impact my coaching practice too much ;-)
If people read this book before implementing with Scrum, they wouldn’t need to do much fixing! Ryan and Todd did an excellent job creating a well-structured compendium that you can read in order and/or use as a powerful reference. In particular, the Coach’s Corner section in each chapter is full of great, practical advice for every practicing Scrum master.
This book is an essential read for any Scrum Team who wants to deliver value frequently and enjoy doing it. It illuminates the most common Scrum anti-patterns, their underlying causes, and practical ways to make them transparent and overcome them. You will appreciate both the directness and the humility in the authors’ positive approach to fix your Scrum.
If everyone would follow Ryan and Todd’s vision of what a Scrum Master should be, then Scrum (with Kanban of course) would be near perfect!