As companies transforming themselves to agile, it is essential to transform the HR processes, how we measure individuals and also set priorities\goals to them.
Following list of priorities can help the Scrum Masters in setting their priorities\goals
- I will build a fun filled atmosphere in the team where every person enjoys work with optimum collaboration and trust
- I will ensure all stakeholders of the scrum including Product owner have a common shared vision which is documented and imbibed with every person in the team
- I will ensure the way of working, cadence, ceremonies are all clearly documented, adapted and continuously improved by team
- I will strive for 100% visibility of all user stories, both from the product backlog and the sprint backlog, during each sprint.
- I will ensure that zero new work enters the sprint backlog from outside the team during a sprint.
- Ensure adherence to scum practices by mentoring the team regularly, will measure this by conducting agile maturity assessment
- I will ensure the impediments are proactively identified by team and raised as early as possible, minimizing no new surprises within the sprint
- I will ensure sprint retrospectives happen objectively and the outcome is tracked as visible actions , followed up and closed within agreed timeframe
- I will help improve the team productivity by motivating them to take stretch goals and also focus in removing any bottlenecks and idle time in way of working , will measure by improvement in velocity/ reduction in cycle time over the period of time
- I will constantly challenge the team and facilitate how to reduce the technical debt by bringing in automation, refactoring and other agile\devops practices
- I will motivate the team members to learn at least one additional skill in next six months and does help bring efficiency and reduce dependency within the team
- I will constantly challenge and observe team for any possible improvements, encourage team members to come up with continuous improvement ideas and support them realize the same, will measure by % of savings achieved, effort saved or business value realized by these improvements
The Scrum masters may choose some or all of these as their priorities and can sharpen their scrum master skills by realizing the same.
I am sure , this list is not complete, feel free to add any missing top priorities that you feel is important
My Musings ! 