Blog post : “Dear agile consultant – hiring criteria for coaches and mentors” http://jkat.me/JpGgMv
Originally published on LinkedIn on May 5, 2012. Enhanced for this site with expanded insights and additional resources.
My answer to the lawn dart of a question, “should scrum master be a fulltime role?”…
A full throated consulting, “it depends.”
Saying a team is running Scrum and has a Scrum master is data without information.
Is the team proficient and performing? Is the scrum master a capable coach or just a facilitator/project manager. Does the org invest in learning, team leadership and continuous improvement?
It’s like a sport where most teams aren’t allowed to practice, don’t field all the positions, and are coached by an office admin. Then asking if that coach is necessary.
What value are they creating, what harm are they creating, what outcome does the team and org need, and can they learn and adapt?
My post proposing a structured plan-do-check-act prompting cycle in code generation was featured in the Agile Alliance newsletter today.
Trying to complete my code gen cycles on a of a story or task within a story to fit in 1-3 hours. This entails a full pdca loop of analysis, planning, tdd, completion check, and retro. Works much better for both the model and me.