Sunday, October 11, 2009

About team truths and business

How personal truth and business can go together?

I'm very excited by the voice on the subject: "Facilitating: the skill of multiple partiality".

Thank you, Yves Hanoulle!

I as a Scrum Master and Super Scrum Master see fights between the truths on every sprint, especially on retrospectives. It is really hard to do not judge the side when his/her position makes (or can) the team commitments lower or causes team failures during the sprint. But he/she has its own truth...

Usually I try to fulfill the company needs, keeping the team interests how it is possible. But so, I risk to do not fulfill the needs how the Product Owner (PMs etc) see them. At other hand there is a risk of team overkill as SM have to protect the developers . So in such case it would be simple to be neutral... yes, it's impossible actually. And yes - coaching might help to investigate and solve such problem.

It is important to respect truths of all parties... but it is much important to make truths of all parties are right to the business.
How to do that? Many tools: sociology, negotiations, leadership, common idea, shared responsibility... And run forming-storming-norming-performing.

Thank you Yves again!

I'm glad to find real-life questions and answers on your blog.
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