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Coaching Skills for Scrum Masters & The Self-Organizing
TeamNode Boston – February 22, 2017
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@benday
Benjamin Day
• Brookline, MA• Consultant, Coach, & Trainer• Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM• Team Foundation Server, Software Testing,
Scrum, Software Architecture• Scrum.org Classes
• Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF)• Professional Scrum Master (PSM)• Professional Scrum Developer (PSD)• Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS)
• www.benday.com, [email protected], @benday
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Online courses at Pluralsight.com
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@benday
Online courses at Pluralsight.com
• Scrum Master Skills
• DevOps Skills for Developers with Visual Studio 2015
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On with the show.
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Overview
• What does the Scrum Master do?
• “Clearing the brush” toward self-organization
• Coaching the team
• Difficult Conversations
• The Zen of Self-Organization
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“What does the Scrum Master do anyway?”
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Curling.
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Olympic sport. Played on ice.
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~148 ft / ~45 m
~15 ft/ ~4.8m
Team 1 Team 2
Target Target
The Curling Sheet
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Curling Stones
• ~40 lb. stones
• Polished granite
• It’s got a handle
• 8 stones per team
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~148 ft / ~45 m
~15 ft/ ~4.8m
Note: that stone’s not to scale
Get your stones as close as possible to the center of the target
Each team takes turns
Team with the most stones closest to the center of the target wins
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Throwing
• 3 team members per throw
• Thrower• Stone in hand• Pushes off with legs
• Starts glide towards target
• Thrower has to release stone
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The thrower might put some spin on it…
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…but once released, nothing can touch the stone.
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After the release, the Sweepers take over.
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Sweepers
• Two sweepers stay with the stone
Guide the stone to the target
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Just to be 100% clear, the sweepers don’t touch the stone.
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“So, the brushing moves the stone?”
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The brushing doesn’t move the stone. It’s already moving.
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The brushing subtly adjusts the icein front of it…
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…and that can change the speed and direction of the stone significantly.
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The sweepers – without touching it –are helping to coax and guide the stone so
it lands correctly at the target.
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“…and this has what to do with scrum mastering?
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Scrum Master is a Coach
• Scrum Master is not a management role
• Team members don’t report to the Scrum Master
• Scrum Master isn’t the boss
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Three Roles in Scrum
ProductOwner
DevelopmentTeam
ScrumMaster
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Three Roles in Scrum
• Product Owner is as close to “a boss” as you’ll get
• Provides the vision & goalProductOwner
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Considering the inherent bossless-ness, Scrum expects and relies on the team
to self-organize.
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To be successful,the team needs to use their creativity to deliver
done, working software.
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The team takes the Product Owner’s goaland self-organizes to figure out how to
deliver done, working softwareat the end of the Sprint.
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The basic idea:Give the team their goal and
then get out of the way.
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The Scrum Master helps the team to be creative and productive.
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You can’t command someone to be creative.
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“1…2…3…BE CREATIVE!!!!”
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You can’t tell people exactly what to do and also expect them to figure it out for themselves
at the same time.
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And now back to curling…
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Just like the sweepers can’t touch the stone…
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…a successful Scrum Master doesn’tcommand the team.
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The Scrum Master guides the team and helps the team without actually giving any instructions.
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• The team is the stone
• The Product Owner is the thrower
• The Scrum Master is a sweeper, guiding the team towards the goal
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“What does the Scrum Master do anyway?”
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The Scrum Master helps the team tobe productive and to use their creativity
in order to deliver done, working software.
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The Big Lesson:The Scrum Master leads through
influence not by command.
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Suggestion:Stop being a boss.
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One of the most common & frequent moments of Scrum Master Bossitosity is the
Daily Scrum.
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The Daily Scrum is not a status meeting.
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The team does not report to you.
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Remind them of this if it happens.
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If it still happens, break eye contact.
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Encourage them to talk to one another.
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Remind them that the Daily Scrum is for them.
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Consider having someone else run that meeting.
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(Which is good…because it frees you up to do other things.)
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Suggestion: Think like and/or bethe team’s therapist.
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Consider going to see a therapist yourself.
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Read their emotional minds.
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Try that at the Daily Scrum.
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Hang back and read the room.
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Idea:Levels of Listening
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Levels of Listening
• Level 1• “me me me”
• Level 2• Laser-focus on the other person
• Level 3• “meta”• The vibe of the conversation
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Arguably, the emotional reading trick is a level 3 technique.
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When you’re in a meeting with your team, listen to the contents of the conversations.
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What “level” are they communicating on?
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Lots of “level 1” and they might be talking past each other.
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Suggestion:Observe to the room
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Let’s say you noticed something.
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The “level 3” just changed.
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It got tense.
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It got boring, exhausted, defeated.
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Observe that to the room.
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“Hey. What just happened there?It feels like we just got socks for Christmas.”
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As Scrum Master, your job is to help the team be productive. It’s your job to notice this stuff.
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When that kind of stuff happens,it’s a great topic for conversation.
(And people probably didn’t notice it either.)
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Suggestion:Get curious.
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Embrace your inner “dumb”.
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Ask a lot of follow-up questions.
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Even if I *think* I know the answer, I want to hear the answer come out of
someone else’s mouth.
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I also want conversation.
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Try to ask open-ended questions.
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Closed-ended:“Are you going to get that SQL code done?”
Open-ended:“How’s that SQL code doing? Can you give me an update?”
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I really really want to avoid injecting my own opinion.
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If you have a theory, give yourself an out.
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@benday
If you need to say something try…
• “Check this out…could it possibly be xyz?”
• “Try this on for size. What if we asdf?”
• “I could be wrong but what do you think about zxcvasdf?”
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Sometimes you have to inject“alternate theories of mind.”
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@benday
Alternate Theories of Mind
• Teams sometimes get hooked on what someone *might* be thinking
• “Is it possible that XYZ is thinking something else”
• Never ascribe to malice what could just as easily be attributed to incompetence.
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Suggestion:“Difficult Conversations”
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Read this.
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@benday
When things get heated…
• …one or both sides do not understand• Their contribution to the disagreement• That their interpretation of someone else’s motivation is not actually correct
• …there is often a difference between what is felt/thought vs. stated
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A difficult conversation is 3 conversations
1. The “What Happened?” Conversation• Disagreement about what should or
has happened• Who’s right or wrong? • Who deserves the blame?
2. The Feelings Conversation• What are people feeling?• Are my feelings valid? Should I just
suck it up?• What about the other person’s
feelings?
3. The Identity Conversation• What does this situation mean to
me?• Am I good/bad at my job?• Worthy• Self-esteem
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So what do we do with this?
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You’ll be coaching to all 3 sub-conversations.
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“Difficult conversations are almost never about getting the facts right. They are about conflicting
perceptions, interpretations, and values.”
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@benday
To the “What happened?” Conversation
• Coach that “we might not want to assume we know the truth”
• Ask “do we have all the information?”
• Try to drill into “what were the intentions?”
• Try to avoid “blame”• Focus on what went wrong• Focus on how to avoid it in the future
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@benday
To the “Feelings” Conversation
• This is hard in business because often feelings “don’t exist”
• “99% of the time it’s not a technical problem”
• Remember it’s about feelings even if it’s not ok to say that
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@benday
To the “Identity” Conversation
• Listen for the hint that there’s something else at stake
• The disagreement might be chipping at self-perception
• “I’m not the kind of person who lets people down…”
• “I’m not the bad guy…I’m always one of the good guys!”
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Suggestion:Coaching Self-Organization
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“Fake it ‘til you make it.”-Lyssa Adkins
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Get comfy with silence.
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Ask the team what they want to do.
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"It looks like X is happening. What do you want to do about it?"
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Any last questions?
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@benday
Overview
• What does the Scrum Master do?
• “Clearing the brush” toward self-organization
• Coaching the team
• Difficult Conversations
• The Zen of Self-Organization