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Four Scrum Master Success Principles

TL; DR: Four Scrum Master Success Principles

Contrary to popular belief, the Scrum Master success principles are tangible, when we guide the analysis with an outside perspective.

Read on and discover four Scrum Master success principles, from when not to use Scrum to product quality to supporting the Product Owner to putting self-management at the center.

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How to Make Your Agile Workshop Effective

Use your workshops wisely!

The Agile movement that took off with its formal journey around the turn of this century is turning 20 soon! Millions of IT professionals, consultants and academicians have read about, written about and practiced the Agile values and principles in the last couple of decades. That is testimony to how solid those principles are and how they are valid in the dynamic, ever-changing business and technology trends.

You may also like: Explore the Scrum Values Workshop

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Build Trust With Scrum

Are We Really a Team? 

Looking back, a couple of years ago I had a chance to work with the great team. Yes! They are a great team, but not from the beginning...that was a broken team when I came on.

  • The team used Scrum but the Transparency was lost. The Development Team hid issues from the Product Owner when he came to ask. They said: “All good!", but actually, they had a ton of bugs and impediments and couldn’t deliver working software.
  • The Development Team complained that the goal was changed frequently by the Product Owner.
  • Disappointment appeared between the Development Team and Product Owner every Sprint Review.
  • The higher manager started to doubt the product's quality and progress. Therefore, they put more and more pressure on the team and asked for more reports. This didn’t help to improve the situation but only made it more terrible.
  • Every time something went wrong, people started to complain to each other and this led to "fear mode." They started to say "I", not "We."

In a tough time, I planned to do many things to support the team, but first I asked them: "As a Team, do you trust each other?"

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The Importance of Agile Leaders

An Agile mindset is crucial in management roles for organizations that are moving towards Agility. I observed this while working in various organizations and currently am a witness of it while assisting my customers.

Decisions, actions, directions, and vision often come from the management level, especially in the hybrid world. When an organization thinks about applying Scrum, they shouldn’t expect only changes in how teams work, but also,  they should start considering how the management team intends to operate.

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Adapt and Evolve to Scrum

Over the centuries, humans have managed to adapt to many situations and evolve to become what we are today. History shows that we have an innate ability to adapt and evolve.

This remains valid as part of a change in business, such as the adoption of Scrum.