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Facilitating Professional Scrum Teams Improve Team Alignment Effectiveness and Outcomes By Patricia Kong, Glaudia Califano

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Pages: 310
File size: 11.33 MB
Format: Digital PDF
Course: Education
Category: eBook[PDF]

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The Facilitating Professional Scrum Teams: Improve Team Alignment, Effectiveness and Outcomes—co-authored by Patricia Kong, Glaudia Califano, and David Spinks—covers how to use purposeful facilitation to move beyond simple meeting formats, leverage group diversity, and solve complex problems. [1, 2]

The book is structured into clear chapters detailing real-world challenges across various areas of Scrum team dynamics and events. [1, 2]

Core Chapters & Topics Covered

Introduction & Foundations: Explores facilitation as a critical, complementary practice to Scrum, explaining the "how" and "why" behind guiding interactions mindfully.
Facilitating Alignment: Focuses on helping a Scrum team establish how they want to work together, aligning with stakeholders to deliver value, and unifying behind a single product vision.
Facilitating Sprint Planning: Addresses common friction points, such as teams struggling to agree on a single Sprint Goal or team members pushing to overcommit.
Facilitating the Daily Scrum: Focuses on shifting teams away from basic, unengaging status updates into collaborative, focus-driven daily sessions.
Facilitating Team Dynamics: Offers strategies to manage conflict and help individual team members move past being stuck on their own ideas.
Facilitating Product Backlog Refinement: Outlines methods for constructive, iterative product backlog management, including daily refinement experiments.
Facilitating the Sprint Review: Focuses on techniques to maximize engagement and actively draw feedback from passive or unparticipating stakeholders.
Facilitating the Sprint Retrospective: Delves into handling team dysfunction, specifically overcoming internal conflict and shifting away from the "blame game".
Facilitating Beyond a Single Scrum Team: Explores how to handle knowledge sharing, scaling, and collaboration across multiple cross-functional teams. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Appendices & Practical Frameworks

Facilitation Principles: A framework highlighting core participative principles.
Adapting for Virtual: Best practices and tools for ensuring communication, alignment, and high participation in remote environments.
Facilitation Checklist: Practical preparation steps for setting up successful team sessions. [1, 2]