This document provides an overview of Ilan Goldstein, an Agilist consultant and coach. It includes images and brief biographical information about Ilan, noting his background in traditional project management and experience with Scrum for almost a decade. The document also discusses some of the key attitudes and abilities needed for the ScrumMaster role, focusing on qualities like being extremely approachable, caring for the product and team, and acting as a wise wizard. It questions whether common job postings and industry practices truly reflect the servant leader aspects of the ScrumMaster.
Agile Attitudes and Abilities - Ilan Goldstein - Agile Australia 2012
1. Agile
Attitudes & Abilities
Image by news.com.au Image by
Planetrugby.com
Ilan Goldstein – AxisAgile.com
Twitter - @ilagile
Agile Australia 2012
2. Scrum guy!
Background in traditional
PM
‘Agilist’ for almost a
decade
Blog about Scrum
www.scrumshortcuts.com
Writing first book...
Image by Mike Cohn Signature Series
9. 2.
1.
Noun
ster]
ScrumMaster
ScrumMaster [say skruhm-mah-ster]
Noun
1. The coach, facilitator, impediment remover, and servant leader
of the Scrum team providing process leadership
[skruhm-mah-
2. A person who helps the Scrum team and the rest of an
organization develop their own high-performance, organization-
specific Scrum approach
21. Job Ad 1
Agile Project Manager …adherence to all
Scrum Master documentation standards,
practices and tools
The candidate is considered The Agile Scrum Master
a subject matter expert in monitors progress on an
one or more functional areas hourly basis
Reviews Product Reports progress through
Backlog dashboards and
burndowns
Plans upcoming sprint
Process management
…effective at leading &
motivating team members to Establishes
perform at a pace that is, at budgetary constraints
times, grueling
Image by Monster.com
22. Job Ad 2
Scrum Master /
Project Mgr
Sprint planning meeting(s)
Shield teams from external Daily stand up meetings
influences, facilitate
removing impediments Scrum of Scrums
Report impediments
Build / maintain
comprehensive Sprint Reviews
knowledge of business
processes and technical
systems
Proficient in MS Project
Strong personality, ability
to influence people
Image by Monster.com
28. So what are we looking for?
Enact change without fear
Diplomatic without being political
Selfless without downplaying
Protective without over-protecting
34. Image by Podiumcafe.com Image by The
Telegraph
“There‟s no one in the world that can do his job; he‟s the best in the world at what he does.”
- Mark Cavendish on Mark Renshaw, his lead out man
Image by Ke-Ai
37. So what are we looking for?
Enact change without fear
Diplomatic without being political
Selfless without downplaying
Protective without over-protecting
38. Who here is a project manager or ex-PM?
Image by ramonbonetfotos
39. Who arrived under the common assumption
that the ScrumMaster = Scrum PM?
64. Not simply a
functional list
Not the exclusive
domain of ex-PMs
PM’s do make the
transition
Great
ScrumMasters
can be hiding in
plain sight...
Image by goutamgujjar
65. Image by kk
Not anyone can be a ScrumMaster
but a ScrumMaster could be anyone
66. Questions?
Stay in contact:
Ilan Goldstein
@ilagile
axisagile.com
scrumshortcuts.com/blog
ilan@axisagile.com
au.linkedin.com/in/ilangoldstein
67. Images used in this presentation – with special thanks to their talented creators
1 – Advance Australia Fair – News.com.au 33 - Express Delivery – The Telegraph
1 - Going Nowhere – Planetrugby.com 33 – Brugge 3/Apr/11 - Kei-Ai
2 – Mike Cohn Signature Series 35 – Helicopter Mom – Leah Bend
6 – Machu Picchu - Craftedview.com 37 – Mans elaire – ramonbonetfotos
9 - Co. B 229th Military Intelligence Leaders 41 – Job Search - Monster.com
Reaction Course - Presidio of Monterey 42 – Mike Cohn Books – Mike Cohn
11 – Seeing Eye Dog – Welsnet 48 – Telescope – Salendron
13 – Honeycomb - Wildexplorer 49 – Coins - Jeffbelmonte
14 – zz-Gandalf – Ianmckellen 50 – Gantt Chart Anatomy – Garry L Booker
16 - Perplexed Scrumtrooper – 54 - Other Food - Markb120
ScrumShortcuts.com 54 – Chinese McDonald’s – boarderland
17 – Untitled - CrazyFast 55 – Hole in One – rknight
20 – Job Ad 1 - Monster.com 57 - CSA-2006-10-23-093556.jpg –
21 – Job Ad 2 - Monster.com familymwr
22 – Antarctica 14 - Guille Avalos 58 – Software Manager’s Bridge to Agility -
26 – Various Agile Books – Amazon.com Amazon.com
29 – Change – It’s a New Year - nanagyei 59 – Do not disturb – herbrm
31 – Hudson Cement Factory - Sebastien 63 – Camouflage – goutamgujjar
Barre 64 - Minded. Heart. Relationship. Standards.
33 – Offseason Team Capsule - Source. - kk
Podiumcafe.com