Learning to love the journey
All ScrumMasters yearn for their teams to become more effective agilists. It’s common for this yearning to turn into frustration when working with people who just don't get it. Before we know it, we’re speaking disparagingly about who we’re there to help - throwing our hands in the air, giving up and being unhappy in our roles as ScrumMaster.
News flash! ScrumMasters will, by definition, ALWAYS be in situations where the people around them haven’t mastered Scrum. When that stops being true, you’ll just be moved to another team that does need your help.
Come to this session if you want to learn how to enjoy every day of your amazing journey, develop compassion for your team, link the work you’re doing now back to your life’s purpose and rediscover that spark for your role as an agile change agent.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
0:00 Introduction to topic and speaker
0:03 Normalize that we all get frustrated with the pace of change
0:08 News flash! ScrumMasters are in a perpetual state of agile transformation
0:013 The power of the perspectives we take and how to be intentional about our perspective as ScrumMasters.
0:17 Activity: Rediscover your spark with the Original Myth exercise (this an extremely effective coaching tool participants will use to explore their relationship with their role)
0:25 How to discover your life’s purpose and what you can learn about it from your current role as a ScrumMaster
0:35 Five things you can do today to change your perspective and start loving your journey
0:39 Closing with words of encouragement, support and that we’re all in this together “Transforming the world of work”.
Learning Outcome
- Recognize that ScrumMasters will always be working with people who haven’t yet mastered Scrum
- Evaluate why they do what they do
- Plan out how to start enjoying every step of the journey today
Target Audience
Everyone dealing with resistance in an agile adoption.
Video
Links
Blog
https://www.superheroes.academy/blog
Speaking
Chrysalis 11th Annual Gala Fundraising Event - May 28, 2019 - event Sponsor and MC
https://chrysalis.ca/event/2019-gala-fundraising-breakfast-may-28/
Global Scrum Gathering Austin - Get buy-in now! - May 18, 2019
https://events.scrumalliance.org/austin-2019
Product Calgary Meetup - Value Stream Mapping Workshop - April 19, 2019
https://www.meetup.com/ProductCalgary/events/260268981/
Bucharest Agile Coaching Meetup - April 15, 2019
https://www.meetup.com/Bucharest-Agile-Coaching-Meetup/events/260283837/
Bay Area Agile Leadership Network - March 13, 2019
https://www.meetup.com/BayALN/events/259404752/
Calgary Agile Methods Users Group - March 7, 2019
https://www.meetup.com/Calgary-Agile-Methods-User-Group/events/258921078/
IIBA - Lean into Agile - Talk on Value-Stream Mapping - October 23, 2018
https://calgary.iiba.org/event/iibar-calgary-chapter-professional-development-day-2018
Calgary Agile Methods Users Group - Experiments in Empowerment - April 7, 2016 https://www.meetup.com/Calgary-Agile-Methods-User-Group/events/229401892/