Cherie Silas Presentation
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The document discusses the role of a Scrum Master as a coach for their team. A Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring the team understands and follows Scrum practices. As a coach, the Scrum Master helps build a high performing team by reinforcing self-organization, cross-functionality, accountability and a focus on delivering value. They use tools like a "High Performance Tree" to help teams evaluate their strengths. The Scrum Master also uses powerful questioning techniques to provoke team thinking and guide them to clarity and action for continuous improvement.
Cherie Silas Presentation
- 1. Beyond Removing Impediments: Scrum Master as Team Coach Image by Pictofigo
- 2. Allison Pollard Firm believer in continuous improvement and the power of teams to affect change
- 3. Cherie Silas Strong desire to help people arrive at the place they define as success in both personal and professional life
- 4. 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?
- 5. 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! Image by Pictofigo
- 6. 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
- 7. The High Performance Tree Constructiv e disagreem ent Consensus-driven Get the right business value
- 8. Activity: • Think about your current team • Add more roots to the values that are present • Color in the fruits for the benefits that are present Images by Pictofigo
- 9. How to use the tree with your team • Project kick-offs – Review the values, characteristics and benefits – Define working agreements • Retrospectives – Have the team evaluate the strength of the values, benefits in the team Images by Pictofigo
- 10. 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 Image by Pictofigo
- 11. 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 Image by Pictofigo
- 12. Activity: • Partner up; one person will talk about his/her team • Other person picks 3 powerful question cards. During the conversation, only ask these questions • To start the conversation, ask: Where is your team weakest? Image by Pictofigo
- 13. What did you learn? Image by Pictofigo
- 14. Scrum Master as Team Coach 1. Use metaphors to describe abstract concepts and feelings 2. Use powerful questions to invite discovery, clarity, and action Image by Pictofigo Practice these tools with your team to coach them to high performance
- 15. Resources • Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins • Images from Pictofigo, www.pictofigo.com
Editor's Notes
- #3: where you work your history why this topic ...is a Principal Consultant for Improving Enterprises and has worked with Agile teams as a project manager, as a Scrum Master, and in coaching roles. A firm advocate of continuous improvement and the power of teams to affect change, she believes the world needs more strong teams in order to be Agile and meet the demands of today; her goal is to help others create them, shape them, and support them. Allison also volunteers locally as one of the organizers of the DFW Scrum user group and serves on the Dallas Agile Leadership Network board.
- #5: WHY we came up with this presentation, what we will talk about --based on Lyssa’s book, help you take the ideas from the book and use them with your team next week
- #6: The role of the Scrum Master is about more than removing impediments and facilitating meetings. Scrum Masters act as mirrors for their teams and mentor team members—great Scrum Masters coach their teams to high performance every day. We’ll share a metaphor for teams to use on their journey to high performance and teach Scrum Masters how to be coaches for their teams.
- #15: Summary slide! The role of the Scrum Master is about more than removing impediments and facilitating meetings. Scrum Masters act as mirrors for their teams and mentor team members—great Scrum Masters coach their teams to high performance every day. We’ll share a metaphor for teams to use on their journey to high performance and teach Scrum Masters how to be coaches for their teams.