{"id":8073284,"date":"2021-06-25T12:29:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T19:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-agilealliance.pantheonsite.io\/?post_type=aa_book&#038;p=8073284"},"modified":"2022-09-16T12:13:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:13:26","slug":"the-scrum-masters-guide-to-collaboration-mapping-the-landscape","status":"publish","type":"aa_book","link":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/resources\/books\/the-scrum-masters-guide-to-collaboration-mapping-the-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scrum Master&#8217;s Guide to Collaboration: Mapping the Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guide \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is focused on the human aspect of Scrum projects: cross-functional communication, teamwork, and collaboration<\/li>\n<li>Revisits the most common challenges in Agile projects (Stakeholders, organizational culture, resistance to change, and team dynamics)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Topics covered are \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Agile and Scrum principles, an overview of Agile frameworks, and Scrum\u2019s place among other Agile frameworks<\/li>\n<li>The Scrum Master\u2019s role, leadership styles, and servant leadership<\/li>\n<li>Building and nurturing effective Scrum Teams (traits of ideal team players, team habits, dysfunctions, conflict styles)<\/li>\n<li>Building rapport with Stakeholders and managing their expectations<\/li>\n<li>Communication techniques most suited for servant leaders (Non-Violent Communication, questioning techniques, and templates)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This book is intended to be brief, succinct, and on point. The contents have been carefully selected and filtered to minimize distractions. I intended the style of this book to be more on the coaching side than the prescriptive side.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the twenty years of experience and knowledge I gathered in business and change, I proposed some ideas that may prove helpful when navigating the landscape. Additionally, at the end of each chapter, you will find a part titled, \u2018Thinking corner\u2019, which is aimed to assist with self-reflection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guide \u2026 Is focused on the human aspect of Scrum projects: cross-functional communication, teamwork, and collaboration Revisits the most common challenges in Agile projects (Stakeholders, organizational culture, resistance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8033092,"featured_media":8073285,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8073284","aa_book","type-aa_book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aa_book\/8073284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aa_book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aa_book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8033092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8073284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aa_book\/8073284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8073285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8073284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8073284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8073284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}