You have been just hired as a new Scrum Master. The team you’re going to work with doesn’t have any experience in Agile and is very sceptical about Scrum. They want to focus only on coding and don’t want to track their progress or attend any meetings. How do you influence and motivate them to use Scrum?
I first interact with all the team members to observe their current challenges in their current way of working. I shall give my commitment to them from supporting point of view to get their trust. Then I shall ask the teams, while we continue what we are doing, what are the top 3 challenges and issues with current way of working. I shall try my best to support them in addressing. This will help me to get even more trust with the team. Then I shall just introduce “Daily Scrum” without even telling Scrum and Agile to the team. Everyday a 15 minutes of sync up meeting with all Development team. After few days I shall ask them if they find that useful. I am sure they will find it useful because transparency will improve, team collaboration will improve. Then slowly I shall introduce retrospective at a cadence of 2 weeks, what went well and what went wrong in the last two weeks and what can be improved. This will get confidence to the team because they see small improvements. Then I shall ask them how about a one day training on Scrum and Agile? With their consent, I shall run a one day training to introduce Agile and Scrum with fun filled activities. Then I shall ask them, shall we try few Sprints to see how it works? Like this I shall introduce small doses and Agile and Scrum to get the team’s confidence and get them into experimental mode.
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