The Scrum Master Guidebook: A Reference for Obtaining Mastery

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Notion Press, Dec 7, 2019 - Self-Help - 514 pages

Choose to be a Master Scrum Master? Prepared to establish yourself fit for 21st centuries Digital Transformation & solution Development? This book can revolutionize your course.
Based on the one decade of research and several hundred Scrum Master coaching has established this volume. This Guidebook is for all the Scrum Masters, who determine to become master in Scrum Master role and build magnificent software solutions. Competitive pressure and fundamental changes will remain the hallmark of the business environment. Thus, the demand for new and upgraded skills will continue. Lifelong learning is not simply an academic thought; it is a business essential. This Guidebook has emphasized the pragmatic challenges a Scrum Master comes across during software solution development and how Scrum Master can fortify themselves to surmount all these challenges. This Guidebook consists of seven distinct areas like Communication, Creativity, Companionability, Competent Team formation, Change agents, Charismatic leadership, and Catalyst. These seven pillars are seven elements of the Seven Chakra Model (7C chakras) empowers scrum masters to obtain individual agility. If these Seven chakras are not purified or malfunctions, we develop into disordered or function inadequately. As an Organization is not a machine, it is an Organism, Scrum Masters have to take care of these Seven elements by learning about them and strengthening these elements so that the Individuals does not get affected much by external challenges.
The author has emphasized many challenging use cases, thought-provoking questions for the readers to reflect on and take action and has cited many case studies in this book to make the volume pragmatic for the reader. The author had shared many theoretical concepts for the reader to work out further research and enhance learning in those areas so that the reader can become fit for Master Scrum Master.

 

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Few Key Points
Scrum Master as a Change Agents Introduction
How Does An Individual Develop Change Leadership Expertise?
How Can An Individual Manage Change Management for An Organizational Transformation?
Why Do Change Agents Need to Know About the Human Archetype?
What Are the Change Management Steps for Effective Coaching?
How Do We Sustain a Change So That Change STICKS?
Case Study 7 Change Management Result on Individual People? Tool for Coaches

Group Thinking tools for Agile Team
Scrum Master as a Companionable Person
can we do
How to develop Emotionally Intelligent people?
Knowing self and others how is it helpful?
Applying flow in team to get maximum output?
How to make it better?
How I became extrovert from introvert in the last two decades
are you honing this Intelligence??
Why we all require to learn Behavioral Science?
Team Agreement how it can Benefit?
Applying some tips from Sir Alex Ferguson coaching Style
Why Knowing Other Cultures Makes You a Better Individual While Working in Teams
Case Study
Few Key Points
Scrum Master as a Creator of a Competent Team Introduction
Applying Ladder of Inference in Scrum Events
Steps to Strengthen Team Resiliency
When You Have to Deal with Narcissistic Personality
How Growth Mindset Thoughts Helped Me to Come Out of the Depression?
3C of Thinking Skills for Backlog Refinement
Try Fail Learn and Repeat Message for My Scrum Team
How High Can You Coach? Are You Ready?
Few Powerful Questions to Be Asked By the Team Members?
How Can We Maximize Learning? Are You Maximizing?
How to Run Scrum Events Effectively?
Story from Panchatantra
AGILE Transformation Needs a Selfdisciplined Culture
Selfdisclosure An Excellent Tool for Increased Engagement at the Workshop
Solution Focused Approach to Coaching?
Do You Have HAPPY Friendscolleagues? How YOU Will Recognize Them?
Facilitating Workshop? Must to Know for a Coach
Understanding Where Power Comes from in the Workplace?
Who Would Want to Work for a Weak Manager?
Barriers to Successful Partnerships
Controlling Attrition? What Can Be Done
Focusing ON STRENGTH Based Management
How Socrates Would Have Read the Technical Book?
One of the KEYS for Scaled Agile Implementation
What Can We Pick Up from Them?
Agile Sunflower Team
On Change Management What Great Folks Said food for Thought for All Change AGENTS
Applying NLP for Coaching and Change Management 10 Case Study
Sustaining a CHANGE Management Initiative in An Organization
Transformation Journey for Self and Team
How to Change Peoples Way of Working?
Change Management Approach for Coaches
Case Study
Few Key Points
Scrum Master as a Charismatic Leader Introduction
How can we become Heroic leaders?
When I find my Agile Leader how do I recognize himher?
Why do we follow Leaders?
Practicing Servant Leadership
As a ManagerLeader can YOU create a SECURE BASE SAFE HEAVEN for Others?
On the Path to Become a Charismatic Leader
Transforming Command and Control type Leader to Servant Leader? How this will Help YOU?
Attitude Defines our Altitude
Buddha on SelfDriven SelfOrganized SelfActualization and Servant Leadership
Can you please assure Success?
How I am practicing to say No
Leaders use the tips from Alan Mulally to Build an awesome team
Why the scrum master should think like an Intrapreneur?
Why Enhancing Credibility is one of the keys for Servant Leaders
How to Build Trust in the Team?
Case Study Few Key Points
Scrum Master as a Great Catalyst Introduction
Triggering Motivation 2 How do we Motivate the Team Members? 3 How to Increase Motivation at the Workplace? 4 Experience Improved motivat...
How can it be done?
SelfActualization Behaviors?
Applying Arousal Theory to Motivate Self
Finding your Purpose through a Game?
Effective coaching techniques 9 Relaxing through Mental imagery
Junk food for Motivation please identify and avoid
Coach what type of coaching style will you adopt?
Why Selfefficacy is the blueprint which you demand to test and spread?
MOOD lifting Exercise at Office Try
Who moved my GRIT?
How do I know if I have High Adaptability skill?
How Expertise is Developed?
Positivity one of the core skills which has aided me a

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About the author (2019)

Mr. Chandan Lal Patary is the author of the book, The Agilist’s Guidebook – A reference for organizational Agile Transformation. He is working as an Enterprise Agile coach. He has coached several hundred scrum Masters. He has approximately two decades of Information Technology product development experience. He has been conducting research on Organizational Development and Transformation for a decade. His focus areas are Organizational Transformation and Business Agility, Innovation, Strategy, Execution excellence and correlation with People Leadership and the impact of all these into Organizational growth. He is certified PMP from 2008, Green Belt certified holder from 2005. Chandan is an agile practitioner, Certified LeSS for Executives from 2019, Certified SAFe Agilist from 2017 and Certified Scrum Master from 2011. He has worked with startups and large companies like GE Medical system, Honeywell, ABB, Societe Generale and Shell. Chandan has worked on a domain like Oil and Gas, Banking, Healthcare, Aerospace, Building automation, Power automation, Industrial Automaton under real-time mission-critical product development to large-scale application development. He has written 460+ blogs in LinkedIn. He has presented 15+ seminars as a speaker in numerous conferences. He has uploaded 35+ presentations on Slide share on diverse topics. He has written 20+ technical papers in varied national and foreign journals. He has received many awards in all the companies he has served in. He has received PM World Journal, 2017 Editor’s Choice Awards for the paper “Increasing Business Agility through Organizational Restructuring and Transformation”. Apart from work, he is passionate about alternative medicine, Yoga, Drawing, and Music.
email/LinkedIn: patarychandan@gmail.com

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