Along my more than 40 years working on project processes, as a developer or the manage, I could learn that the best approach to have a project process started, executed, and ending by delivering the produced value is to start, from the beginning, with a leader facilitator.
This professional take the role of conducting the process, lead the teams, help keep the focus, promote discussions, and encourage the decisions to be taken by the stakeholders. Once defined the primal goal, this leader should make the stakeholders and the organization’s leaders to choose the professional responsible for the product of the project.
When those roles are filled, from the beginning, the whole project process starts with some organization, and enhancing the probability for success.
When we talk under the Scrum Framework theory, those roles have names: Scrum Master, as the leader facilitator; and Product Owner for the responsible for the product.
I know the initial movements are some steps before the Scrum Framework cycles start, and talking about the execution, now, might be premature. In fact, when those two roles are defined from the start, the leader may ensure that the stakeholders and the team members work harmoniously. The focus on the project evolution is enhanced, and the definitions are improved.
Any correction, adjustment, or change in the definition occurs more smoothly, when a facilitator leads the transitions and manages possible conflicts.
Along the time, I realized that for the two roles, there must be some special thoughts. For the Product Owner role, it seems to be suitable for a collaborator from the Organization, for the knowledge over the Organization vision, principles, goals, capabilities, to help align the proposition. For sure this is not mandatory, but this initiative brought the best results. Way better than hiring an external Product Owner.
Instead, for the Scrum Master, I truly advocate for someone who has no employment commitment to the organization. Once this professional should reach some situation and have to strongly argue with all ranks at the organization, sometimes call them back from dreaming or delusions, and be truthful even if the truth might not be so pleasant to the higher ranks, he must have all the security to carry the duties and have the proper respect from all the Organization’s collaborators.
A Scrum Master independent from the organization, with a contract business to business shall have a different relationship with the stakeholders and the organization directive stuff. To implement the techniques, keep on track all the work, ensure that everyone is doing what and how it was decided.
The Scrum Master independent from the organization, with a contract business to business shall have a different relationship with the stakeholders and the organization’s directive staff. Implementing the techniques, keeping on track all the work, and ensuring that everyone is doing what and how the team has decided for.
When the organization has the Scrum Master working from the beginning, all de process tends to flow smoothly and be controlled by a leader that shall serve the project cycles to ensure that project will succeed in delivering quality values.
During all my time as an Engineer, working on projects in various areas, I am now working as an independent Scrum Master to help organizations to get their projects to succeed and deliver the final product or value.
I had worked on several projects, since my early years, on electronic devices, telephony equipment, and private networks, plant power enhancements, embedded computing devices, software development, computer network infrastructure. I agree that this is a wide range of possibilities, and some areas could be said incompatible.
But over all those years working and producing, I developed my ways of dealing with situations, events, and problems.
People also say I am too old to work with high-technology, trend-tops, but I always believed, and I practice it, that the distance from what a professional doesn’t know, to get at least a basic knowledge, is studying and reading, researching, and experimenting, learning, and adapting. Despite my age, I am still hungry for new knowledge and new challenges. For sure, using all my experience and all I learned along the way. I am a personal company ready for a B2B contract to help teams to find their north. If I could help you, let me know. I don’t promise miracles, but hard-working.
