Facilitating Professional Scrum Teams: Improve Team Alignment, Effectiveness, and Productivity
- By Patricia Kong, Glaudia Califano, David Spinks
- Published Dec 15, 2023 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
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Description
- Copyright 2023
- Edition: 1st
- eBook
- ISBN-10: 0-13-819624-9
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-819624-0
Unlock the true power of collaboration within Scrum Teams with this practical guide packed with tips, tools, and real-life scenarios to elevate your facilitation skills.
Scrum requires healthy collaboration, not just between the members of the Scrum Team, but also between the Scrum Team and its stakeholders to gather feedback and input. These stakeholders include users and customers of the product developed by the Scrum Team. Collaboration is the heart of thriving Scrum Teams, but most available resources on collaboration focus solely on meeting formats and neglect to show how Scrum Teams truly harmonize their efforts and make informed decisions effectively.
This book bridges the gap by not only providing effective facilitation techniques but also delving into the how and why of facilitationall geared toward improving effectiveness, achieving impactful outcomes, and helping Scrum Teams work through challenges.
- Obtain tools and insights for Scrum Teams to better facilitate team interactions to leverage group diversity.
- Learn from real-world scenarios that illustrate common Scrum Team challenges and how they can be overcome with effective and timely facilitation.
- Discover comprehensive facilitation approaches accompanied with effective guidance on when to use them, how they can be combined, and how they can help to achieve desired outcomes.
Sample Content
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Facilitating Alignment
Chapter 2. Facilitating Sprint Planning
Chapter 3. Facilitating The Daily Scrum
Chapter 4. Facilitating Team Dynamics
Chapter 5. Facilitating Product Backlog Refinement
Chapter 6. Facilitating The Sprint Review
Chapter 7. Facilitating The Sprint Retrospective
Chapter 8. Facilitating Beyond a Single Scrum Team
Chapter 9. Conclusion: Moving Forward
Appendix A. Facilitation Principles
Appendix B. Adapting for Virtual
Appendix C. Facilitation Checklist
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