So You Want To Be A Scrum Master?
About the course
This book is the result of a Hackathon. Whilst the devs were busy hacking code the Agile Community Of Interest decided to hack around on a book.
This book is a collaborative effort by the community to provide something free, and hopefully valuable, to the wider agile community. We wrote this book for new Scrum Masters, or those planning on tackling the Scrum Master career.
Our goal was to ship an eBook in 48 hours. We achieved it and you're reading it now. We appreciate your support and we really do hope you enjoy the book. We certainly enjoyed creating it for you.
Authors
Rob Lambert
Helen Lisowski
Martyn Frank
Raji Bhamidipati
Steven Mackenzie
Keith OSullivan
Course Outline
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: What to Tell Your Mum When She Asks What You Do for a Living
Chapter 3: Scrum Master is a Strange Job Title (but we don't have a better one)
Chapter 4: How to Tell People What to Do Without Telling Them What to Do
Chapter 5: How Do You Become an Expert in a Room Full of Experts?
Chapter 6: What Has a Scrum Master Ever Done for Us?
Chapter 7: You're Not the Admin Lacky
Chapter 8: Being Effective and Liked
Chapter 9: New Team Members Adopt the Same Behaviours as the Team
Chapter 10: This is the Team to Get it Done
Chapter 11: Using Small Steps When Big Changes Might Be Resisted
Chapter 12: Why is Coffee Important?
Chapter 13: Being Flat Out Busy is Not Effective Agile
Chapter 14: The Framework Curse
Chapter 15: The Kind of Person Who Knew Too Much
Chapter 16: No Process is Perfect, but it Doesn't Mean it's Crap
Chapter 17: Poor Requirements
Chapter 18: Reduce Failure Demand
Chapter 19: Inflicting Help
Chapter 20: Agile Consultants Who Don't Know What it Means to Be Agile
Chapter 21: What Would a Customer Say if You Shipped it Now?
Chapter 22: Whilst Doing This, You're Not Doing That
Chapter 23: Scrum Master - What Happens Next?
Chapter 24: How We Learn
Chapter 25: Acknowledgements
Chapter 26: Notes