The Scrum Master Guidebook

Friday, January 31, 2020

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

The Scrum Master Guidebook has obtained a fresh comment from reader Niraj Bhandari. Thanks, Niraj for your time spent on this book reading, and sharing with all of us. I am honored to receive an observation from you as you have an ocean of experience as a Product Mangers with many diversified organizations. This book is for all the team members working with Scrum Framework, Glancing at the world through my lenses. Readers will learn fresh ideas to experiment with something unique and exercise with his/her context to deal with the situation in a better way. This book list down 100+ Challenges, but not proposing those as a silver bullet, Please read and share with others…

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

The Scrum Master guidebook

Thursday, January 16, 2020

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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The Story of Number 500!!

Today is a symbolic day for me!

I am certain nobody observed it! I stop here and glance back…

Today I have arrived at one of the MILESTONES, which set for myself 5 years back.

I HAVE REACHED MILESTONE 500 IN MY BLOGS POST IN LINKED IN!!!!

Thanks to all my associates!!! I thought I will never come to this spot.

My BLOGGING journey commenced in 2015.

I used to joke with my colleagues in ABB @2015 that once I should get number 500, and we used to joke, each article will be like the Indian Penal Code, which will be called whenever demanded.

The blogging journey triggered because I used to fail consistently in the interview! I was fed up with this process. I had started thinking if I could establish a knowledge repository where I should be able to find all the challenges and answer whenever I search for it.

That is the launching moment, I started picking up all the challenges, difficulties, pain, and hatred in the form of a blog for future use since 2015.

Since then I have been walking and shutting my mouth, looking down and writing, reusing my blogs whenever required.

Any of colleagues asked any question for guidance, I generally send them my blog. in case if it helps them.

I always read my blogs before my interview in case it helps!

Most of the blogs people liked, some blogs people abandoned.

Every year I completed 100 blogs so far.

Now like addiction, I feel something is missing when I can not log a blog in a week.

I look for a challenge in the assignment which will confront me and compel me to think, exploration and exercise some model, framework which I will apply and take away a few vital observation.

I am indebted to all my colleagues who encourage me to write, challenge me to write, criticize me to write, know me as I write, invite me to the conference as I write!

Some people identify me, I am a cut-and-paste blogger; I encourage them to come with me and cut&paste, this will particularly help all of us, in a process they will not waste anything only gain wisdom.

This blogging gave me 2 books from my side to the world, I will not be there but the book will be there, I know many people will not buy these books but still, it will be there in Amazon.

One of the biggest challenges, I have till now; I have spent a significant portion of the earlier study in Bengali languages, so my English is miserable, I get the feedback from my reader, which I yet to correct. I am now fed up with the deficiency. Every new year’s resolution is failing to improve the same. My speaking English is also Bengali English with Hindi mix! so communication is also a challenge! which encourages me to sit home and communicate less! Less social!

Over a period of time I realize, I could be a storyteller, in most of my training, people like the way I present the message. I have been a trainer for more than 10+ yrs in my 2 decades of experience.

I use most of the blogs in my training as it is ready to consume at any point in time. I use my blogs in any conference, as it is invariably ready, it is a different story that I rarely get the opportunity to speak!

One of the finest satisfaction from blogging is that my kids are also like to read and write, as a role model I could able to establish some signature in their mind.

I wish I will continue on till 1000 and people may read or may not, but for my mental hunger and food, I should keep moving...

If the first 500 produced 2 books, the next 500 will generate 3 books, in the last mileage of my career in the coming decade, I should finish my innings with 5 books in Overall.

Looking forward to all of your support....…

Saturday, January 11, 2020

The Scrum Master Guidebook

Thursday, January 9, 2020

How These Guidebooks can make you stronger?

The Agilist's Guidebook - A reference for Organizational Agile Transformation

and

The Scrum Master Guidebook - A reference for obtaining Mastery

Both these guidebooks are for Agilists who wants to learn from the mistake and experiment of others.

The Agilist's Guidebook - Based on the Pancha Bhoota Model, where 5 main forces have to be strengthened to build a robust organization.

The Scrum Master Guidebook - Based on Seven chakra model, where all the 7 chakras need to strengthen.

These books talk like a guidebook, which can be referred to along with other books, these books are not substituted of other agile books, these books are the supplement of other books.

Pancha Bhoota Model is all about helping Organizational Agility wherever you are working in.

What can we try to develop Coaching force? We are all coaches from whatever role we are playing.

What can we try to develop Leadership force? we are all leaders from whatever role we are playing.

What can we try to develop High-Performance team ? we are all team players from whatever role we are playing.

What can we try to develop growth Mindset? We all have to change our mindset from whatever role we are playing.

What can we try to develop Organizational Transformation? We all have to enable Organizational Agility from whatever role we are playing.

In the last chapter, Chapter 6 talks about several case studies.

Organizations will be able to handle external changes/forces when these 5 forces(Pancha Bhootas) are robust and supporting each other.

Please have a look for more

https://theagilistguidebook.blogspot.com/

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The 7C chakra Model, this is to achieve Individual Agility.

The Scrum Master Guidebook, is based on the 7C chakra model, how can Individual Strengthen these Chakras.

Everything is context-specific,

First Chakra focus on Communication, Connecting with all, How can we strengthen this Chakra?

The Second Chakra focus on Creativity and Innovation, Bring something new, How can we strengthen this Chakra?

Third Chakra focus on Companion-ability, get along with all, How can we strengthen this Chakra?

The Fourth Chakra focuses on building a competent team, How can we strengthen this Chakra?

The Fifth Chakra focuses on a drive for Change, How can we strengthen this Chakra?

Sixth Chakra focuses on the drive for Leadership development , How can we strengthen this Chakra?

the Seventh Chakra focuses on to be the Catalyst, How can we strengthen this Chakra?

All these are essential skills to develop for 2020.

Please look for more

https://thescrummasterguidebook.blogspot.com/

The Agilist's Guidebook cost 100 INR and The Scrum Master Guidebook cost, 180 INR, it takes 3-4 months to complete these books and start experiment with the context.

It took 5 years to create these books. The Agilist's Guidebook has 800 copies in the market and The Scrum Master Guidebook has 50 copies, since introduction into the world.

Let us help each other and learn from each other.

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Sunday, January 5, 2020

2020: Why should I prepare?

How should I prepare myself for 2020 to prosper? Invest something to learn on New Technologies?

Invest something to learn on Enterprise Software?

Do something to drive growth?

Develop something to improve my core skills from the list below?

Do something to develop my Creativity skill?

Develop my soft skills in these areas?

Which particular areas you are focusing on?

My book , The Agilist's Guidebook, Highlights all these areas to strengthen these areas.

My The Scrum Master Guidebook, Highlights, these areas

My constant en-devour is how can I become Master in all these areas....

Like S curve, what are the new things we want to start this year? What are the things we started previously , want to mature? what we want to unlearn this year?

The Scrum Master Guidebook

The Scrum Master Guidebook, designed to crack any tough Job interview for Scrum Master role. Take any Job description of the Scrum Master role, you can map this 7C model.

Friday, January 3, 2020

The Scrum Master Guidebook Comment from Ranan

Fresh Comment from the Reader Ranan, Nice to read such comment, Particular benefits I discover that the reader will be able to implement something based on the experience I have shared. This a Made In India book where I applied Yoga analogy to highlight the skills which I thought will be essential for all of us. My key focus for this book is thousands of Scrum Master who can gain benefits from this book, Thousands of coach who coach those Scrum Masters, Thousand of Product owners who works with those scrum Masters, Thousands of Leaders who works with the Scrum Master. Let us help each other to develop each other. With all of your aid, the scrum Master Guidebook has printed 30 physical copies. Continue sharing your review comments.

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

2020 soft skills

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Case studies for Scrum Masters

Case Study 1:

You are the scrum master for the project where the budget has been fixed. The scope has been discussed with the top-level managers and high-level plan has acknowledged. Managers demonstrated the confidence that IT delivery team has performed such work and can do it on time within budget. Now the project has come to the execution phase. During the execution of the project, you have started following the scrum process and start elaborating the backlog, showing the demo to the business stakeholders. You have started discovering that there many challenges which never looked at during the initial scope analysis and budget finalization. Whenever you are reviewing all these challenges to the business, the business is consistently blaming saying that IT is not competent to accomplish the work. You also as a scrum master acknowledge that there are competency issues that with the current team skill-set many things are not going as per the plan.

Give it a thought:
What you should be doing? Business is pretty upset? you may lose the contract? There is a deadline on the final date for go live and business is anxious.

What do you think as a scrum master you can do?

Case study 2:

You are a scrum master for a team who is working on the latest digital product, your team is working on a couple of microservices API. Your team is small and having 9 members; most of the team members are having 4-6 yrs. of experience and they are extremely efficient developers and your manager is a micromanager where he is not having any other obligation other than taking care of the 9 individuals. He is forcefully coaching the team, where he is 100% immersed in the PM way of looking at the world. You have one Product owner who is in France and there are 3 more developers working as a contractor from

France working with this India team; any day their contract can be terminated and all the scrum events are going on smoothly but everywhere you discover people are sitting on top of your shoulders, asking for micro-level details, asking for billing hrs., asking for velocity vs quality defect data, and pressurizing to do more? At every senior leadership visit, your product is showcased as a digital product development initiative. You are under terrible pressure to deliver higher quality product and through rapid delivery. You are having an issue and the team members are not performing well and the attrition is very high.

How do you drive?

Case study 3:

You are the scrum master for a product-based company where your team is supporting back office work for a bank. Your end product development is done in India by your scrum team. You are dependent on some component which comes from the Vendor company based in Gurugram, India. Your product owner and the user base are in Germany. You have a total of 15 members in the team and many stakeholders are spread across multi geographical locations. You are the senior scrum master for this team and an expert who is expected to minimize some of the burning issues happening with the team. You have asked a few of the team members who are working for a long time with this scrum team. They showed a pessimistic view that nothing can be done. By applying your world-class communication skills,

How can you motivate the team for a better performance?
How will you break the distributed challenges in this case?
How do you simplify vendor management and your scrum teams’ frictions with other partners?

Case study 4:
Penguin software is a small-scale software development company. They are mostly into software services. They have got a subcontract from a product development company to do end to end automation testing by integrating their team with the product development company’s scrum team.
The expectation is very high which is to rapidly automate all the end to end test suites that are continuously produced by the full-stack team members. As a scrum master, every sprint you will be fully in charge of the overall product quality. The team is using the latest cutting-edge technology for developing the solution. One of the challenges that is present is that you do not have highly competent team members to run the show. But while getting the order, your sales team had promised a lot. Now the order has come, and you need to fulfill the dream. You are the scrum master for the team.

What are your thoughts to build the team, which is doing long term product development work for more than a year?

Case Study 5:
Project Power world has 40 team members in a scrum team. There are 5 scrum teams. It is a geographically distributed team. There was an immense expectation from this team with a tight timeline. Team was formed newly after going through several months of recruitment drive for new members. Each scrum team has one scrum master and one shared product owner for all these scrum teams. Each scrum team was dealing with many challenges within the India teams plus among India and Sweden teams. Leaders of the team are struggling hard to bring in scrum discipline and establish the self-organized team. There was cultural barrier which is leading to many issues, there were new ways of working which causing issues with old timer, there were new governance which causing some issues etc. There were leaderships support but only 50%.
By knowing more about human psychology,

How can each scrum master can Improve the situation?
What do you do in such situation?

Case Study 6:
You are the scrum master for one of the product teams which is developing a Realtime Database. This is a database and it is not a standalone product. This database will be used by the Airline platform and there are many consumers who will use this product. Your team is releasing through sprints, but the airline platform team is doing a release in six months. You are going too fast for them and your team is not getting real-time feedback about the software you are building.
How are you planning to collaborate with the airline platform team, which is 100+ team members?
Your entire product management team is supporting you, but you are getting resistance while collaborating with the Airline team.
As a scrum master, what do you think you will be able to do to control the damage?
There is a lot of conflict within the team and outside the team. Teams are based out of Denmark, US and India. You are the senior scrum master and with the team for the last few months.

What will be your change strategy?

Case study 7:
Opto automation has many scrum teams which are building software for the next generation Industrial Automation control systems for the cement plant. The team has adopted many tools to increase the speed of delivery. New tools to code, design, test and deploy everything is being used in the project and it is completely new for the team members. It is a 30-member team and there are 3 scrum teams which are geographically distributed (India, Switzerland and US).
Recently, it moved from waterfall to an agile way of working. You are the scrum master for one of the scrum teams in India.

How do you ensure all the change initiatives run smoothly and are sustained for the long-term?
Why do you think culturally divisive teams will listen to you?

They are already comfortable with the team tools they were using.

Case study 8:
Germpower is an automobile software product company where many scrum teams are working to develop a product. Recently, they received an order to build a product, which needs to be migrated to a modern technology from a legacy product. The organization is not a high paying company and most of the team members do not have a strong track record with their education.
The software was absolutely unfamiliar, and nobody knows where to commence. The Scrum master was a senior team member within this organization. The Scrum master was one of the best people leaders and he was accepted by many of his colleagues. His leadership style was genuine and people-oriented. Everyone prefers to work with him. He encourages individuals to take initiatives; he supports and cares about the well being of the people. During the initial days, when the teams were in the discovery phase, there were demands to put extra efforts to know more about the technology plus the legacy system, as the scrum master was easygoing and a fun-loving individual. The team members were always putting extra efforts to understand more about the technology and the legacy system. Unfortunately, after 6 months of the project, he received an onsite long-term opportunity which was greatly required by the organization and he has to travel to Switzerland with his family. You have been recruited as the new scrum master for this project.

What do you think you will be performing to reinstate the old scrum master style?

Case study 9:
MegaAero system is a product-based company building solution for the Aircraft cockpit. Recently the organization has started a new solution for the Cockpit Display System. Though the development is with multiple scrum teams, but the parameters are fixed (Time, cost, etc.). The contract has been signed, the release date is fixed, team members are from different departments and they are billing 50% for this program. You are the scrum master for `the multiple scrum teams!
An Expert higher than the Product Owner is your boss/Line manager. He is setting everything and asking on a daily basis about the program progress. The team members are under tremendous pressure to deliver. You can see the psychological pressure on the teams. They are already burning out due to the pressure. They express their concerns in the many retrospectives which you have started driving.

What do you think about this scrum program and what should you do, what can you do differently by knowing the motivational factors?

Case Study 10:

You are the scrum master for the team name RAID which is building up a platform product for multiples business lines. Initially, this project was launched with a small idea and after one year of work, this was accepted by the business extremely successfully, and businesses prefer to develop RAID 2.0 and other business lines also grew interested to reuse this platform. The platform is built up in the XYZ cloud web service platform. Team members from XYZ company were in your scrum team as a full-stack developer to establish this proof of concept and ensure the capability of the XYZ cloud platform. Now after one year, your company decided to minimize the contract employee from the XYZ as a full-time developer. You as a scrum master scared that with the competent team members you have, you will not be able to demo sprint on sprint. As you had experienced at an initial couple of sprints where you were struggling to develop potentially shippable products every sprint, that why you have hired XYZ full-stack developers with higher prices and XYZ also involved to establish their cloud platform to be used.