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Fire Your
Scrum Master Why, When & How?
(And Not Because Of What You Think Firing Means!)
Tathagat Varma http://thoughtleadership.in
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Caveat
•This Is Meant To Be An Exploratory Talk
•Because Possibilities Are More Valuable In The Long Run…
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Scrum Guide, 2016TheScrumTeamconsistsofaProductOwner,theDevelopmentTeam,andaScrumMaster.ScrumTeamsareself-organizingandcross-func?onal.Self-organizingteamschoosehowbesttoaccomplishtheirwork,ratherthanbeingdirectedbyothersoutsidetheteam.Cross-func?onalteamshaveallcompetenciesneededtoaccomplishtheworkwithoutdependingonothersnotpartoftheteam.TheteammodelinScrumisdesignedtoop?mizeflexibility,crea?vity,andproduc?vity.
ScrumTeamsdeliverproductsitera?velyandincrementally,maximizingopportuni?esforfeedback.Incrementaldeliveriesof“Done”productensureapoten?allyusefulversionofworkingproductisalwaysavailable.
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So What Does A Scrum Team
Deliver?
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“Working Software”
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Scrum Guide, 2016TheScrumMasterisresponsibleforensuringScrumisunderstoodandenacted.ScrumMastersdothisbyensuringthattheScrumTeamadherestoScrumtheory,prac:ces,andrules.
TheScrumMasterisaservant-leaderfortheScrumTeam.TheScrumMasterhelpsthoseoutsidetheScrumTeamunderstandwhichoftheirinterac:onswiththeScrumTeamarehelpfulandwhicharen’t.TheScrumMasterhelpseveryonechangetheseinterac:onstomaximizethevaluecreatedbytheScrumTeam.
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And What Does A
Scrum Master Deliver?
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“Self-Organizing
Team”
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So, Once The Team Is Capable
Of Self-Organizing, What Should The Scrum
Master Do?
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“Get Fired!”
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Not Your Grandpa’s Style Of Firing…
Firing because You Have Done
Your Job Well!
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Scrum Master Is A Role, Right?
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But What’s Happening
Instead?
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Creating Scrummaster
Jobs!
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Sample This…
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Types of Scrummaster Jobs On LinkedIn…
Confused Type
Engineer Type
Manager Type
Career Type
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Confused Type
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Engineer Type
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Manager Type
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Career Type
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So, The Goal Is…
Self-Organization.
Right? (So, How Does A Team Self-Organize When
There Is Always a Scrum Master???)
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Let’s Consider One
Possible Way…
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Stage 1: Team Comes Together
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• Identify the key goals. Perform SWOT, etc.
• Agree on what does the team need the Scrum master to do!
• Every team is different, and so must the Scrum Master be!
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Stage 2: Team elects Its Scrum Master!
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Candidate VotesA 0B 1C 4D 2E 0F 0G 0
CC
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Stage 3: Scrum Master As Expert And Coach
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• Training in Scrum
• Directing / coaching the team on the process, as needed
• Removing impediments
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Stage 4: Scrummaster as Facilitator
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• Encourage team members to take lead and directly work with each other
• Gradually, remove himself / herself from the loop
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Stage 5: The Whole Team Is A “Scrum Master”!
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• When the team has learnt to self-organise, take a back seat
• The real test is when the team continues its normal functioning by itself!
CC
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Self-OrganizationSelf-organization, also called spontaneous order (in the social sciences), is a process where some form of overall order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system.
The process is spontaneous, not needing control by any external agent. It is often triggered by random fluctuations, amplified by positive feedback. The resulting organization is wholly decentralized, distributed over all the components of the system. As such, the organization is typically robust and able to survive or self-repair substantial perturbation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization
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On Paper, A Team Might
Never Be 100% Self-Organising,
But By Not Letting Go, They
May Never…
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In Fact, The Only Real Way To
Know Might Be To “Inspect And
Adapt”…
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Recap• As Teams Mature, The Role of Scrum
Master Would Expectedly Reduce
• An Ideal Scenario Is When The Team “Fires” Its Scrum Master
• The “Fired” Scrum Master Goes Back To His/Her Chosen Team Role
• When The Team Encounters Significant New Challenges, It Might Elect A New Scrum Master
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References• https://www.quora.com/Agile-Software-Development-Is-
it-possible-to-run-scrum-without-a-scrum-master-If-yes-in-what-scenarios
• https://www.scrum.org/Forums/aft/570
• https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/99381/is-a-scrum-master-needed-on-a-high-performing-team
• http://alistair.cockburn.us/Shu+Ha+Ri
• https://www.leadingagile.com/2015/10/a-day-without-a-scrummaster/
• https://ikbenagile.nl/goodbye-scrum-master/