No One on My Team Knows Scrum
A Scrum master is a teacher. Part of the role is to ensure that Scrum is well-understood and enacted by the Scrum team. Want a quick way to test whether your teaching efforts have been successful? At the end of your next daily scrum, ask the dev team if they can draw the Scrum framework on a whiteboard and explain the Scrum roles, artifacts, and events.
If that seems like a big ask, try something simpler. Ask your team who has read the latest version of The Scrum Guide. Over the past five years, we’ve yet to find a team where every team member can answer “yes” the first time we ask that question. We ourselves might have answered “no” to this question many years ago, when we were development team members.
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