Beyond Removing Impediments: Scrum Master as Team Coach

The role of the Scrum Master is about more than removing impediments and facilitating meetings. Scrum Masters act as mirrors for their teams and mentor team members great Scrum Masters coach their teams to high performance every day. We will share a metaphor for teams to use on their journey to high performance and teach Scrum Masters how to be coaches for their teams. Come learn how to give meaningful feedback and ask powerful questions to grow a team.

Speakers:

Allison Pollard (http://keepaustinagile2014.sched.org/speaker/allison.pollard) - Senior Consultant, Improving EnterprisesI am an agile coach working with 20 teams in a large enterprise, and I love to create communities for those interested in developing their agile instincts; I mentor project managers to become great Scrum Masters and coach managers to grow teams that deliver amazing results and an organizational community that provides sustainability for agile. I am also one of the organizers of the Dallas-Fort Worth Scrum user group which hosts monthly sessions with over 60 attendees and serve on the Dallas Agile Leadership Network board.

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Cherie Silas (http://keepaustinagile2014.sched.org/speaker/cherie.silas1) - Principal Consultant, Improving EnterprisesI am passionate about helping people achieve their dreams of success. I am also passionate about leadership, mentoring, and training.

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