Ask Don’t Tell – Dance of the Scrum Master

Ask Don’t Tell – Dance of the Scrum Master

Hi! I'm Natraj Kaushik. I recently attended an Advanced Scrum Master Certification course facilitated by Evolve Agility. I have been working on scrum teams for about fourteen years. Over the years I have been a development team member, Scrum Master, Product Owner and...

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Learning together as a team

Learning together as a team

The post explains a systems thinking approach for team learning, emphasizing mental models, curiosity over knowledge accumulation, and the importance of actionability. It introduces a technique involving a series of steps to foster collective understanding and address the blind spots inherent in any team environment. These steps guide a team to identify factors affecting their performance, analyze cause and effect relationships, identify dominant causes and effects, and ultimately make informed decisions to improve productivity and tackle challenging work. The method values facilitation, engagement, and the realization that learning is a continuous, shared process within a team’s system.

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Decide how you decide

Decide how you decide

Effective team decisions depend on how they’re made and should foster unity post-choice. Not pre-setting decision procedures can cause confusion and frustration. Methods like consensus, majority vote, or leader decides, each suit different contexts, but clarity on the approach is crucial. Agile coaching can help establish these decision-making norms to prevent misunderstandings and improve long-term effectiveness.

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Scrum Master stances

Scrum Master stances

Here are Scrum Master stances. Although default stance for a scrum master is to be in service to their scrum team. Where in she is identifying and removing impediments to serve their team. By improving organizational systems so that impediments do not recur they serve...

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Satir Change Model

Satir Change Model

The Satir Change model applies to individuals as well as systems of individuals. It is one of the cornerstones of the family therapist Virginia Satir’s work on how change takes place. The Satir Change Model Late Status Quo A fairly stable system (individual or groups)...

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Definition of Done : Why it matters?

Definition of Done : Why it matters?

One of the first things we recommend new Agile teams establish a “Definition of Done”.  A shared definition of "done" is crucial to highly functioning Agile Teams in helping them develop practices and behavior that drive quality, consistency and transparency. A useful...

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