How to defend against the 10 things that drive your ScrumMaster crazy

Marc Löffler (@scrumphony)

@scrumphony

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http://blog.scrumphony.com/2010/10/how-to-defend-against-the-10-things-that-drive-your-scrummaster-crazy

Who ever heard about the 10

things?

Who already faced one or more of the

10 things?

Who was driven crazy by them?

Warning!!!

I may speak too fast....

There are no simple solutions for complex problems...

How I collected the 10 things...

Scrum But(t)

They drove

me crazy

I collected them, wrote them down and created a blog article out of it...

What I found out...

The 10 things that drive your ScrumMaster crazy and their possible causes

No. 1Keep doing tasks that are not

part of the sprint backlog.

Disturbances from outside of the team...

„We always did it this way...“

No. 2Hide your impediments. They

will for sure vanish on their own.

The lone wolf...

The ScrumMaster is incapable...

No. 3Don’t talk to the PO during the

sprint. Never.

PO is not available...

Not used to...

No. 4Ignore the definition of DONE when finishing your tasks and

backlog items.

No one checks it...

This is your DoD!

No. 5Stand in front of the sprint backlog and say

“I’ve nothing to do” or “None of the tasks are for me” (even better if 90% of the tasks are

still open).

Fear to learn something new...

Snugness...

No. 6Prepare for the Sprint Review

5 minutes before it starts.

Lazyness...

Last minute changes...

NOT

No. 7Don’t split your tasks into smaller ones even if you know they will

take the whole sprint.

„This task is not splittable...“

Don‘t want to be tracked...

No. 8Be late, always.

Notorious late comers...

„The meeting doesn‘t matter to me...“

No. 9Ask the ScrumMaster continuously

which task you should do next.

Used to push instead of pull...

Missing self confidence...

No. 10Disturb any scrum meeting by

starting multiple additional discussions on different topics or

phoning somebody.

Not focused/involved...

In the end everything comes down to the four evil root causes from hell!

FearFace your fear to get stronger as you thought you could be.

What can we do about it?

Teach them...

How to kick off your new Scrum team...?

Kick them out of their comfort zone....

FearFace your fear to get stronger as you thought you could be.

Step out of your comfort zone...

Involve them...

Pull don‘t sleep...

„I‘ve been with this company long before you were born..“

Get their commitment...

Rotate moderator role...

Use Avatars...

Involve them...

Intrinsic motivation is the key...

Apathy is like cancer...

Build a product vision

Interview the team members...

Invite for a workshop...

Try 20% time...

Still somebody left...?

These are the team members who really want to drive you crazy...

What can we do about them?

Fight!

Questions...?

Thanks for your attention

Sybit GmbH

Marc Löffler

marc.loeffler@sybit.de

http://blog.scrumphony.com

Twitter: @scrumphony

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