Horstesse during failure and acknowledging failure
Failure can be a stepping stone to success. It can also break some people and not have them try again.
Vera presented “How to fail like a Scrum master” at the Agile speakers special meetup “Wine & Speak”.
I liked the way on how she started with the opinion of ChatGPT on her speech 🙂
I liked the way she used the Scrum values to derive value from failure.
I especially like the way she described how she learnt “Respect” using the character “Horstresse” who is stressed during the failure and then learns to acknowledge the failure with a calmness.
Vera presenting at Agile Speakers
Vera is a teetotaller but she still managed to bring and non-alcoholic Sekt that she presented and tasted with the rest of the group
Once you listen to Vera, you know that failure is not going to keep you down and you will learn to derive value from your failures!
One of the discussions we had at the Agile Lean Munich we had was whether the role of the Scrum Master should be internal, external or be skipped entirely?
Wait a minute, does Scrum not prescribe a mandatory Scrum Master?!
So why would the question of skipping the Scrum Master even pop up?
It pops up because the role has been reduced to get a team up and running, support multiple teams till they are up and running and then let the teams do their thing without the Scrum master. Sometime the Agile coach running around training multiple teams is roped in to play part time Scrum master.
One Scrum Master talked about how they were multitasking between Developer, moderator, organizational design
Another Scrum Master talked about how the entire team was taken to hut in the mountains for the weekend to learn an Agile framework. After the weekend getaway the team was expected to become “Agile”
One Scrum Master talked about how he got fired for insisting that the Scrum Master role was not negotiable
Round 2
Each person reflects on the experience of another person
Concentrating on being a Scrum Master and leaving the Developer role and Organizational Design to the Agile Coach or Strategy Consultant helped
How the Scrum Values and Agile mindset was always a work in progress. Every time a new member came in it Agile mindset had to be refreshed. Every time a new workflow was added it had to be refreshed or tweaked
Any company which fires the Scrum Master for insisting on keeping the role while practicing Scrum may consider other suitable Agile frameworks
Round 3
Everyone has a discussion based on the different ideas raised
Is a Scrum Master ever finished? Or does a Scrum Master create a Community of Practice that keeps the Agile mindset active and vibrant
We also talked about the Cognitive overload that many teams experience when trying to keep increasing throughput without consideration of the cognitive overload that team members experience
Round 4
Each person reflects on their takeaway
Role clarity of a Scrum Master in maintaining a community of practice
Career step as a Scrum Master is worth pursuing
Agile mindset if not only required for team members and teams but also the entire organization
