Scrum Master

Scrum Master Certifications
Becci holds dual certifications as a Scrum Master.

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Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance
(Click Here to Verify in Certificant Directory online)

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Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Scrum.org Ken Schwaber, Scrum Co-founder
(Click Here to Verify in Certificant Directory online)

There are three Scenarios for Scrum Master Services.

A) Setting up New Scrum Teams from Scratch
On three occasions I have set up Scrum Teams from scratch.  This is one of my favourite services, because it gives the opportunity to get it right the first time and I have seen some amazing results in the first few Sprints.

It involves recruiting team members with a balance of technical capabilities to be cross functional together with the right attitudes for team working and a blend of temperaments.  I also provide customised training to the roles of Scrum Development Team and Product Owner.  It is because I have also had experience as a Product Owner that I buddy side-by-side to practically show how to do all aspects of the Product Owner role in a “See One, Do One” approach.

B) Scrum Mastering an Existing Scrum Team
Becci brings the following skills in Scrum Mastery to a Scrum Team:

  • Facilitate Scrum Event: Sprint Retrospective
  • Facilitate Scrum Event: Sprint Review
  • Facilitate Scrum Event: Sprint Planning
  • Unblock impediments
  • Train and mentor Product Owner in Product Backlog Refinement to ensure sufficient flow of user stories to the Ready standard
  • Establish visual management Lean process flows eg Kanban
  • Velocity Tracking: Sprint Burnup and Release Burndown charts
  • Agile software tools: Jira, Confluence, Rally, Trello
  • Coach adoption of XP practices: Test Driven Development (TDD), pair programming
  • Coach Development Team establish and maintain Definition of Done as minimum quality standard
  • Coach Development Team in Scrum Event: Daily Scrum

You may like to refer to my post to download a free Scrum Master Job Description.

Scrum Team Rescue Package
There have been numerous occasions where I have been initially brought in to just ‘fix it’ when a group of people aren’t function like a team.  They maybe aren’t getting along or others feel they aren’t getting the expected results.

The analysis involves: coffees with the individual team members; observing interactions and behaviours; reviewing past retrospective outputs; chatting with sources of bottlenecks or impediments; understanding management’s concerns; and conducting a fresh retrospective.

The action list can be a combination of these:

  • Replacing non-team players or those with poor attitude that chose not to change;
  • Empowering the team to self-organise;
  • Clarifying and re-setting boundaries to the scrum roles and responsibilities, especially around the Product Owner;
  • Establishing flow checkpoints;
  • Ensuring the Product Owner champions the definition of Ready User Stories;
  • Clarifying the Definition of Done and transparency of such;
  • Adjusting or setting up mirrored development environments;
  • Reviewing relative estimation practices;
  • Establishing links of trust within the team;
  • Establishing safe working place that rewards sharing, collaboration and pair work;
  • Checking visual management for Sprint Backlog;
  • Celebrate successes along the way in meeting Sprint Goals;
  • Communicating with stakeholders realistic output for the team and how to interpret the Scrum Team’s velocity metrics.

Scrum Master Experience
At Microsoft Australia supported program, Becci Scrum Mastered a team developing Software as a Service (SaaS) 3-tier portal for both B2B and B2C users.
At UNSW she established two Scrum Development Teams for cloud devops and coached 3 Product Owners.
Becci supplements this with 5+ years experience as General Manager of a New Product Development consultancy where she led a team that provided product feasibility, market research, product development, authored a product training series on DVD and provided product marketing expertise to hundreds of people a year.

Contact Becci Today
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