The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

Summary

Retrospectives provide teams with the ability to solve their own problems and escalate any issue that they cannot solve for themselves. Reviews and retrospectives offer visibility into product and process so that both can be adapted, giving the organization the ability to improve by listening to knowledge workers, rather than managing, measuring, and punishing them for challenging the status quo. Scrum sprints allow for the most important work to happen in short cycle times; anything that jeopardizes completion of the product increment must be dealt with immediately. Scrum often leads to innovation by the issues it exposes, but only if the ScrumMaster and/or team can engage in focused, relevant discussions of the challenges. If issues ...