Book description
The Fast, Focused, Practical Guide to Excellence with Scrum
The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay is your complete guide to becoming an exceptionally effective ScrumMaster and using Scrum to dramatically improve team and organizational performance. Easy to digest and highly visual, you can read it in a weekend…and use it for an entire career.
Drawing on 15 years of pioneering experience implementing Agile and Scrum and helping others do so, Zuzana Šochová guides you step by step through all key facets of success as a ScrumMaster in any context. Šochová reviews the ScrumMaster’s responsibilities, introduces her powerful State of Mind model and #ScrumMasterWay approach, and teaches crucial metaskills that every ScrumMaster needs.
Learn how to build more effective teams, manage change in Agile environments, and take fulladvantage of the immensely powerful ScrumMaster toolbox. Throughout, Šochová illuminates each concept with practical, proven examples that show how to move from idea to successful execution.
Understand the ScrumMaster’s key role in creating high-performance self-organizing teams
Master all components of the ScrumMaster State of Mind: teaching/mentoring, removing impediments, facilitation, and coaching
Operate effectively as a ScrumMaster at all levels: team, relationships, and the entire system
Sharpen key ScrumMaster cognitive strategies and core competencies
Build great teams, and improve teams that are currently dysfunctional
Drive deeper change in a safer environment with better support for those affected
Make the most of Shu Ha Ri, System Rule, Root Cause Analysis, Impact Mapping, and other ScrumMaster tools
Whether you’re a long-time Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or participating in your first Scrum project, this guide will help you leverage world-class insight in all you do and get the outstanding results you’re looking for.
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Table of contents
- About This E-Book
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- 1. The ScrumMaster’s Role and Responsibilities
- 2. The State of Mind Model
- 3. #ScrumMasterWay
- 4. Metaskills and Competences
- 5. Building Teams
- 6. Implementing Change
- 7. The ScrumMaster’s Toolbox
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8. I Believe . . .
- The Great ScrumMaster
- Don’t Know Whether Agile and Scrum Is for You?
- Want to Transform Your Organization to Agile?
- Don’t Know How to Build a Good Product Backlog?
- Looking for a Way to Improve Your Team?
- Want to Become a Great ScrumMaster?
- Want to Become a Great Product Owner?
- Want to Solve Conflicts?
- Want to Have a Modern Agile Organization?
- Want to Move Your Organization to the Next Level?
- Zuzana Šochová—sochova.com
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay, First Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2016
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780134657615
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