Coaching Agile Teams
About this book
Adkins covers the coaching side of the Scrum Master role in depth. Works through the mindset shift from expert to coach, then the stances of teacher, mentor, problem solver, conflict navigator, collaboration conductor and coach. Also covers the team's journey through Shu Ha Ri, working with the Product Owner, and the difference between coaching the individual and coaching the team. The standard reference on this part of the role.
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- The project manager on an adaptive teamWhere the project manager's accountability goes when a team is self managing and the work is ordered by somebody else, and what the role does that nobody else on an adaptive team is doing.
- Servant leadership in projectsA way of leading in which the leader clears obstacles and supplies what the team needs to deliver, and leaves the detailed decisions about the work with the people doing it.
- How a Scrum Master Handles Conflict on a Scrum TeamThe word conflict appears nowhere in the 2020 Scrum Guide, so the material comes from team research, and the one boundary the framework does draw is that the Scrum Master never decides for the team.
- How a Scrum Master Facilitates Each Scrum EventFacilitation carries the process while the group keeps the content, which is what separates helping an event reach its purpose from chairing it.
- Retrospectives and continuous improvementA regular inspection of how the work is being done, conducted so that it produces one change with an owner, and never a list of complaints that nobody acts upon.
- Coaching and mentoringCoaching draws the answer out of a person about their own situation and mentoring passes on experience, and knowing which one a moment calls for is most of the skill.