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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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Stacia Viscardi Stacia Viscardi
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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

A real need for a project Grand Poobah


Yes, I'll say it, in a book for the whole world to see: in a large program, with matrix organization, there may be a need for skills that we might dub project coordination. Imagine a program of 300 plus people. replace with "Who is responsible to facilitate the creation of teams?" For organizing teams cross-functionally? Who is responsible for communicating with vendors to plan and track deliverables? Who works with HR and finance to budget for and procure resources? Who facilitates the Scrum of Scrums meeting? In other words, when the group is larger than three teams, someone should be in charge of keeping all the dogs pulling the sled in the same direction. Not responsible for the product's success in the market (I believe that responsibility lies with the product owner no matter the size of the program) but responsible for coordination, for getting the whole thing rolling to some cadence, some sort of schedule, and promoting and allowing for change...

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