Collaboration at Scale
Designed for Scrum-centric organizations with more than 10 Scrum teams, the Collaboration at Scale webinar series provides focused, outcome-driven solutions to collaboration problems faced by Product Owners, ScrumMasters, and Development Teams.
Produced by the Scrum Alliance and Conteneo, Inc., we’re proud of the many distinguished experts who share their wisdom in our series.
Luke Hohmann
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LisetteSutherland
Zubin Irani
2-4 WEEK SPRINT
DAILY SCRUM MEETING
(EVERY 24 HOURS)
POTENTIALLY SHIPABLE PRODUCT INCREMENT
SPRINT BACKLOGPRODUCT BACKLOG
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Common Scrum Challenges
Tech Debt
Release Planning
Roadmap
Retros
Liftoffs
Refining
Value-Based
Backlogs
Priorities
Depend-encies
Done, Done
CI/CD
TODAY:Building a ScrumMaster Community of Practice
June 2017: Estimation And Story
Points
How many Scrum Masters / Agile Coaches are in your org?
• None• 1 - 2• 3 - 5• 6 - 10• More than 10• I don’t know
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POLL QUESTION
Agenda
1 What’s a Community of Practice and Why Should We Create one?
2 Preparing to Launch3 Infrastructure and Frameworks4 Ongoing Operations
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What’s a Community of Practice (CoP)?
A group of people who share a craft and/or a profession.
A group of Scrum Masters who desire to Improve organizational agility.
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Lave & Wenger, 1991
Why Create a Scrum Master CoP?
Strong relationships among peers increase job satisfaction and retention of employees.
Crowd-sourced problem solving increases learning.
High-impact practices are more broadly shared while low-impact practices are identified.
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The Scrum Master serves the organization in several ways, including working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
-- The Scrum Guide
Overall Plan
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Preparing
Getting Started
• Establish Goals and Secure Executive Sponsorship• Identify the Tribe• Establish Affinity Groups
• Introduce the Tribe to Each Other• Review Infrastructure and Core Frameworks• Identify First Mission & Meeting Rhythms
• Identify organizational impediments• Share best practices
Ongoing
Establish Goals and Executive Support
Step 1: Identify problems to solve• Inconsistent Scrum practices and degrees of success
• Teams with handoff/integration friction because of incompatible DoDs• Teams will unreliable estimates• Teams who spend too much/too little time in Sprint Planning• Teams who skip Daily Standups or make them too long
Step 2: Promote the CoP as a means to solve them!• The CoP will identify and share high-impact practices• The CoP will provide peer support to Scrum Masters
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CRM and Back Office SystemsFraud Management
Create Affinity Based on Business Units or Shared Areas of Functionality
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Who Leads the Tribe?
Decide what type of leadership is likely to work best for the organization and people...
• Organizer of group (like a Meetup)• Facilitator of meetings• Collector of “best practices”• Servant Leader• Leader by virtue of expertise• Leader as management function
Identify leaders(s)• By grass roots: Find volunteers• By function: Is there a PMO or other structure that could serve as an
obvious home for the activity? Is there any obvious person to drive?
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If you’re a Scrum Master / Agile Coach, how frequently do you meet with your peers?
• Less than once per year• Less than once per quarter• At least once per quarter• Monthly• Weekly
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POLL QUESTION
Improve Through Retrospectives
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Start Your Day
Speed Boat
4 box
Remember the Future
(aka Futurespective)
Backpacking
Going Well Retro
Large, Distributed Teams Need CoPs!
Socially: Keeps high-valued employees
Technically: Shares knowledge and skills
High-Impact Practices: Retains “what works here”
Economics: Low-cost, low-risk, high reward
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Resources / References
Video conferencing: Google Hangouts, Zoom, BlueJeans, Meetup.com, GoToMeeting, WebEx, etc.
Group Instant Messaging: Slack, Hipchat, Spark, Jabber, etc.
Social Media: Facebook, LinkedIn, etc
Virtual co-working: Sococo, Telepresence
Collaborative Frameworks: Weave
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What do you want for the July 2017 webinar?
• Impact Mapping • Distributed Team Liftoffs / Kickoffs• Building Alignment and Empathy Within Teams• Managing Technical Architectures• Buyer and User Personas• Facilitating Online Meetings• Understanding Problem Types and Problem Solving Strategies• How To Implement Lean Coffee at Scale• My desired topic isn’t listed – email [email protected]
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POLL QUESTION