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The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

You're reading from   The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook A collection of tips, tricks, and war stories to help the professional ScrumMaster break the chains of traditional organization and management

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849688024
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Scrum – A Brief Review of the Basics (and a Few Interesting Tidbits) 2. Release Planning – Tuning Product Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Sprint Planning – Fine-tune the Sprint Commitment 4. Sprint! Visible, Collaborative, and Meaningful Work 5. The End? Improving Product and Process One Bite at a Time 6. The Criticality of Real-time Information 7. Scrum Values Expose Fear, Dysfunction, and Waste 8. Everyday Leadership for the ScrumMaster and Team 9. Shaping the Agile Organization 10. Scrum – Large and Small 11. Scrum and the Future The ScrumMaster's Responsibilities ScrumMaster's Workshop Index

When physical taskboards and conversations aren't enough


Let's face it, not everybody in the company will walk by the team area, study the physical taskboard, ask questions, and so on. For many, this pie-in-the-sky Agile just won't exist (or won't immediately exist). Perhaps the project is just too large to scale up these face-to-face conversations and bug-in-a-jar visibility? How does a ScrumMaster help the souls who won't leave their desks, or who cannot be there in person?

Invite stakeholders to sprint reviews

As mentioned in Chapter 4, sprint reviews are wonderful opportunities for stakeholders to learn what the team have implemented, as well as to give their feedback. Work with the product owner to figure out which stakeholders should be invited, and send the invitations early so that folks can get this important meeting on their calendars.

In lieu of (or in addition to!) sprint review attendance, perhaps it's possible to set up a sandbox environment so that stakeholders can at least preview...

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