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The Scent of a Scrum Master
Saturday, April 12, 2003

I started reading the Scrum book this week. Like my interest in the XP Coach, the Scrum Master is also a position that I want to learn more about. From page 32:

"A Scrum Master has certain personality traits. He or she is usually focused and determined to do whatever is necessary for their Scrum teams. Some people aren't appropriate as Scrum Masters. They aren't comfortable being that visible and taking that much initiative. Removing impediments requires determination and stubbornness."

This description encourages me. I feel like I have a good personality fit for this role, though, not surprisingly, I feel I need to gain experience and confidence in order to be effective.

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The Scrum book had excellent content, but crappy pictures. When a book that small costs that much, black and white pictures should look like you spent more than 10 minutes fiddling around in PowerPoint.

One thing I see in Scrum that is definitely lacking in XP is a process for continuous improvement. While I think the CMM generally leads to big M methodologies, the idea of continually improving your process, even if it works, is very important.

Posted by Darrell on 10/13/2003

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