YDS: Is a Scrum Master the Only Facilitator on a Scrum Team?

Is a Scrum Master the Only Facilitator on a Scrum Team? Let's explore the options this situation presents. This and more are discussed in today's episode of Your Daily Scrum with Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley.

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[Elmusiico]

Would love a series on the different hats of the scrum master. Facilitator, coach, teacher, and change agent.

[Slix]

I’m so glad my team is doing this, my PO anchors the sprint demo we actually discussed and agreed on it, and I encourage my team member to facilitate some project management session that can help the whole, it’s okay doing this, that way I as the scrum master won’t have to wear all the hats but also observe how it’s done, help my team cross the Ts and dot the Is, 😅 way to go ! Thank you guys @agileforhumans, saving humanity 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 and the Agile COP

[MeNombreElAntonio]

Thanks for the video. Video on training from the back of the room would have been awesome!!

[curtispenner]

I am trying a slightly different tact with facilitation. I'm trying to teach my teams to do the Scrum events without me or any facilitation. They know how the event is supposed to go and what outputs we are expecting to get it from it. I don't link leading and facilitating together. I believe they are separate things, my PO will lead refinement, however as a facilitator, I'm ensuring we're staying on a good pace and not letting the conversation spin in circles, but other than that I try to shut up as much as possible. I only speak when needed to speak, which is why I wouldn't consider facilitation leading.

Now in saying all of that, I've been working with this team for two years and I've taught them how to get to here. If I were with a new team, I would be teaching them and in that case I would be speaking more, but I would still lean on the PO to lead refinement and review and I help make sure the train stays on the track, but I'm not conducting. The goal is to get the team to the point where they are functioning at a level that they no longer need me as a Scrum Master.

[vkxcqsn]

Could you do a video on the top 10 (or top X) number of ways story points are abused? At this point I really don’t like story points as sometimes people become completely enamored by them because it is “Agile”. I would trust a bottom up estimate before I trusted story points if I didn’t have flow metrics available. If time and scope are fixed for a very short period of time, I think bottom up estimates are a better call if one needs to determine number of dedicated people needed, but maybe there is something I have not considered.

I am also in an organization that uses SAFe, and it feels like we have to use story points so that there are some numbers that roll up into the features so that features have story points. I will likely never be able to get away from story points.

I realize that people who far outpace their organization, in learning Agile, can also get frustrated. Maybe that could be a 2nd video.

[tomaszniemiec]

🛫 Usually yes, while I prefer to give up the lead for some meeting to others, like the for the daily, we rotate the facilitator role within the team each sprint. I usually lead the retrospectives, while I like to sometimes give up the lead here, just to be able to contribute more into the discussion. I also do prefer for refinements and sprint planning session to be led by the PO/PM. Oh, and the Sprint Review is a collaborative effort, while the...accountability for this meeting is on the PO/PM. That's the setup I usually work with.

🛬 Whatever works, works. If the team feels like it, if we think this could be good, it would be helpful and so on - of course. While I don't like to push the team beyond the above, which I think is the understandable and reasonable minimum. To not get into the SM is the only facilitator problem and pushing too much on a team, that does not see value in having it else.