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This week Jessica Wolfe and Dave Prior respond to a question about how to be an effective ScrumMaster when you are not in the same location as your team. To complicate matters even more, try stepping into the ScrumMaster role in place of an SM who was colocated with part of the team. If that doesn’t seem challenging enough—try two Product Qwners working with the team.
Here is the question:
My Scrum team consists of 4 devs in San Diego and 3 devs and 2 POs remotely (I know, breaking a rule right there having 2 POs and multiple projects assigned to one team) The previous scrum master for our team was located in San Diego and was able to have actual facetime with the portion of the team 2 times a week on average. Tuesday for Daily Scrum and Wednesdays for Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Planning (and then off week's Daily Scrum and Backlog Refinement). While we do everything virtually (Sprint backlog, Product Backlog, screenshare ceremonies encouraging video (but not required)), it was something the team welcomed, it was a rallying day, and I believe allowed the SM a better check on the morale/heartbeat of over half the team - seeing them in person, having easier one on one time available if needed. I have now taken over as SM for this team and another team (other team is all remote and they never met in person regularly), so I'm wondering if you might have any suggestions to foster that same closeness, continue to keep a close pulse on the team and provide a safe environment for openness and collaboration while serving the team from across the country.
Links from the PodcastIf you are curious about Jason Kelce’s speech at the Eagles parade, here you go:
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If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Upcoming ClassesAnd if you are interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/
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An Introduction to Sprint Goals
Balancing Culture With the Need to Produce Results
Exploring Kanban in an Enterprise Environment
Are Dependencies Meant to be Managed or Broken?
From Practices to Principles: The Right Way to Scale Agile
Agile Metrics: Enabling Change with Data Modeling & Forecasting
How to Truly Succeed with Agile Transformation
The Future of Agile Transformation & Change Management
How to Unlock the Benefits of Agile & Get the Most Out of Training Your Teams
Unpacking the SAFe Debate. Is it Agile or Something Else?
Using Intention-Driven Communication
Maximizing the Value of Agile Metrics
Emotional Systems Theory and Leadership
Getting Your Leaders on Board With Agile Transformation
An Executive walks into a Daily Scrum
When the Team Doesn’t Want to Do Agile
Leading in Ambiguity
Industrializing the Agile Transformation Process
Creating win-win opportunities for Junior Talent Regan Jenkins & Lien Nguyen
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