Fixing Your Scrum

Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems is your guide to mastering Scrum and the role of Scrum Master. Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley put their combined forty years of experience working with people and teams into this book and know that it will help you improve your use of the Scrum Framework. Check out a free chapter before buying on Amazon.com.

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Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, often says that Scrum takes a moment to understand and a lifetime to master. Scrum isn’t hard to understand, but applying it is difficult because the environments in which Scrum plays are complex. People, organizations, business problems, suppliers, predefined processes, and behavioral norms all seem to work against this simple framework. In this book, Todd and Ryan provide practical remedies to these problems. They focus on ways that you can make your use of Scrum better, not because Scrum is important, but because–when applied well–Scrum can help you change the world. Scrum on!

– Dave West CEO, Scrum.org

This book is a friendly and conversational partner for today’s Scrum Master. It provides real-world solutions to real-world problems that many teams face in pursuit of being truly self-organized and cross-functional. Ryan and Todd have identified some of the most common anti-patterns that result in bad experiences and less-than-optimal outcomes with Scrum-and encourage teams to face them with practical tools and humor.

– Melissa Boggs Chief ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance

If everyone would follow Ryan and Todd’s vision of what a Scrum master should be, then Scrum (with Kanban, of course) would be near perfect!

– Daniel Vacanti CEO, Actionable Agile

As an Agile coach, I constantly encounter organizations that are doing Scrum poorly and missing out on the great results and impact that Scrum can have. Ryan and Todd’s book has become my go-to initial action for these organizations –I hand them the book and tell them to read it and apply its simple yet powerful advice. It does a masterful job of helping teams fix their Scrum. Now I just hope it doesn’t impact my coaching practice too much!

– Bob Galen Author and Agile Coach, Vaco

From the Back Cover

Learn how experienced Scrum Masters balance the demands of servant leadership while removing organizational impediments and helping Scrum Teams produce real-world value. Discover how to visualize your work and empower your teams to self-organize and deliver using advanced coaching and facilitation techniques.

Bring life back to your Scrum Events by using advanced tips and techniques that leverage the full intelligence of your team. Improve your retrospectives with new formats and structures. Ask powerful questions that spark introspection and improvement. Get support and buy-in from management. Use Scrum as a competitive advantage for your organization.

Take the next step on your journey as a Scrum Master. Transform your Scrum practices to help your team enjoy their work again as they deliver high-quality products that bring value to the world.

Fixing Your Scrum
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Success Stories

This was the first Scrum.org course I took that was co-facilitated, and I believe Ryan and Todd did an excellent job of playing off one another. The breakout sessions and real-world cases the trainers provided were invaluable. I thoroughly enjoyed my learning time and interaction with them, and hope to maybe take another course from them in the future!

Mike Torrence

Todd and Ryan did a great job in running the class and explaining things. I really enjoyed the conversations with Todd and Ryan and with the other people attending the class. I feel like a renewed scrum master after taking this class.

Krista Van De Wetering