Scrum Master - Basic Functional

Training

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AGENDA:
● Core responsibilities of Innowatts

Scrum Master

● Servant Leadership traits

● Team events - Value and Facilitation

● Collaboration Tool Familiarity and

Metric Monitoring & Control

● Resolving conflicts

● Prepare to experience PI Planning as

Scrum Master
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How a Scrum Master supports an Agile Team

➢ Coaches team improvement with values, principles and best practices

○ 3 pillars support scrum values: Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation
○ Scrum values are: Courage, Commitment, Focus, Respect and Openness
➢ Facilitates Scrum team events
○ Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retro
➢ Protects the development team
○ Paying key attention to team Work environment, Dynamic, Cadence, Happiness and
Distractions
➢ Help to remove Impediments
○ Personal/Collective challenges, Blockers and Risk Mitigation
➢ Is a Servant Leader

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Scrum Master

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Act as a Servant Leader

➢ Listens to and supports team members in problem identification and decision making
➢ Understands and empathizes with others
➢ Encourages and supports the personal development of each individual
➢ Persuades rather than uses authority
➢ Thinks beyond day-to-day activities
➢ Seeks to help without diminishing the commitment of others
➢ Is open and appreciates openness in others

A servant leader knows that his/her own growth comes from facilitating the growth of others who deliver
the results. BE HUMBLE

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Team Event Overview

Approximate
Event Value
Timebox

Team reviews priorities, prepares requirements for

Backlog Grooming 1 Hour
next sprint planning

Factor team member availability, estimation and

Sprint Planning 2 to 4 Hours
commitments to deliver the sprint goals

Team members sync regarding the progress of the

Daily Stand-up 15 minutes
sprint goals

Sprint Demo 30 min - 1 Hour Team with stakeholders will review deliverables

Sprint Team reviews and improves its process before the

30 min - 1 Hour
Retrospective next sprint
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Collaboration Tools and Team Metrics

VersionOne
Slack
Team Metrics: Metrics are powerful, in the sense that it helps drive positive improvement in an agile
team.
❏ BurnUp Chart Visual metric that instantly makes it clear how much value a sprint has already
❏ BurnDown Chart delivered and how close we are to completing our commitment to client
❏ Sprint Velocity - It is used to predict the team’s output in the upcoming sprints
❏ Performance against Schedule / Team stability & predictability
❏ Lead Time
❏ Cycle Time
❏ Code Coverage
❏ Failed Deployment
❏ Escaped Defects
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Dysfunctions of a team and how to resolve them

Absence of trust is the key problem that leads to the other dysfunctions

Inattention to Results Results are reviewed during and at the end of a sprint

Avoidance of Let stakeholders, peer pressure, and result review drive

Accountability accountability

Lack of Commitment Teams make shared commitments to each other and to external
stakeholders (Make the statement “I will do”)

Fear of Conflict Create a safe environment for conflict. Encourage disagreement

discussions. Attain an aligned objective and shared commitment

Absence of Trust Establish safe environment. Team shared commitment and goal
are hyper-transparently displayed and engaged in retrospectives

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Experiencing PI Planning

PI planning is a cadence-based, face to face event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile
Release Train (ART), aligning all the teams to a shared mission and vision.

● CXO Briefing/Objectives

● PI Planning Day 1

● PI Planning Day 2

● Features - Owned by product management

● User Story planning and high level estimate - Owned by development team

● Dependencies

● Program Board
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Support responsibilities and Metrics:

● Quarterly - Conduct a process appreciation training (any observed pain-area) backed with
surveys highlighting engagement and implementation quality
● Scrum of scrum meeting : Occurs every second week of a sprint, where we discuss team matrix
trends and improvement areas, dependencies and ideas
● Quarterly - Review of team end of sprints retrospectives with Engineering Managers and CTO
● PI- Planning Readiness, Coordination and Logistics

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Additional Resource

Here are short videos that I have always appreciated. Simple. Easy. Team-level basic Scrum appreciation
Playlist Link::
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqhi6C6sK8aZz_Hz3Fo6cjXum3iAAXkMo
Or Individual Links:
https://youtu.be/D8vT7G0WATM
https://youtu.be/b_WeHcZcx1w
https://youtu.be/wPvG9NZNUa4
https://youtu.be/G4_oHZbURgU
https://youtu.be/cbJinz6TieI
https://youtu.be/ORnFF5wsDto
Also, certification to become a professional scrum master (PSM-1) exam requirement. Note: it is not hard at all. All the
supporting material is online together at scrum.org:
https://www.scrum.org/professional-scrum-master-i-certification

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 THANK YOU

Questions

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