The first day back at work after the course was surprisingly interesting. Several people were extremely curious about the CSM course (this is good) and wanted to know more. I ended up explaining what we were doing wrong (to the best of my knowledge) and what I believed (or was told to believe?) was the best way to do it (for now I’ll follow the principle of doing it by the book first, I think it’s the best approach especially from a junior in the field). I was surprised at the level of interest from people, this will help in the change we need to make in the place. I ran it through my manager and as predicted he was eager for my “proposal”, which I will now start working on. I think I’m going to take for following approach:
- Phase 1 – Understand the current way we work by mingling with the existing “teams” during their work day and scrum meetings and trying to get a feel of what they’re up to.
- Phase 2 – Document the above.
- Phase 3 – Not sure, we’ll see what happens after 1 & 2 I guess…
– for phase 1 use the retrospective.
– document it by doing pictures from the flipcharts
– Start!!!!!! Change – you do have now the interest – use it! Do a better Daily Scrum, run a Sprint Planning 1 properly.
Thanks for this, I think I managed to do a decent sprint planning 1 and 2, based on the results. The daily scrum I will improve on based on your training and the black book. I am struggling though to get the team to communicate and to feel comfortable and to relax. I think this is because of how they’re used to working (bad) and I think this will only change over time, once they realize one successful sprint it might happen.