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….how to break some stupid rules to better serve your teams

--- This is a story about Golden Age Pirates & today’s Servant Leaders ---

Scrum Masters are a unique breed. Tirelessly charting new territory, finding rewards and bringing together their crews to help them work as a team - rowing the high seas with a shared vocabulary in the pursuit of treasure.

Whether you are new or deeply established in your craft of servant-leadership, there are many similarities in what you do and what the Golden Age pirates from centuries ago did. Some 300+ years back, these pirates were professionals (like us) who broke free from a self serving and self interested establishment. Rebels, like those from the merchant and royal navy’s who they said - no more!

These Golden Age Pirates created a code. They had 3 roles – the crew, the captain and quartermaster. They were the 1st to scale up and down, to have fair and equal pay and team rewards - and embrace diversity.

Scrum Masters are not too dissimilar. We have roles, a code (hint. The Scrum Guide, Agile Manifesto), cross functional and diverse teams and the opportunity to co-create a legacy with others that serves us all beyond our current role.

Drawing on experience, the Scrum Guide and the stories in Sam Coniff’s book Be More Pirate Cat’s presentation shares ideas with fellow rebel pirates curious about charting the path for their teams using:

  1. Treasure Mapping - to reduce context switching and get lean
  2. Iteratively creating a Pirate Code - ideas on how to modify the team narrative
  3. Find your own Pirate Crew - the importance of finding the right crew to join, for you

We’ll wrap up the conversation with a Q&A session.

Understandably, this topic may seem along the lines of “that will never work” ! Cat is drawing on a decade of experience, hard work, and a curious dedication to the role. She’s worked with global organisations in enterprise (defence, banking, energy) and the scale up and start up spaces (travel, e comm, fintech). She’s applied treasure mapping with success in the enterprise and scale up space, has co-created codes in both spaces and has learnt the importance of finding the best pirate crew for you...or how you might avoid joining the wrong crew!

For more insights on treasure mapping - check out "how identify the need before you serve & lead": https://medium.com/siteminderlife/scrum-masters-how-to-identify-the-need-before-you-serve-lead-bd2278dbcce6
or watch Sam Coniff explain 5 Steps on How to be more Pirate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkLDttD9mSs

And, as always, read the Scrum Guide!

--- Speaker ---
Cat Hyams - Scrum Master at Slyp

Cat is an experienced and authentic delivery lead, scrum master and coach . She’s worked in enterprise yet prefers and has built her career space in unlocking value and collaboration with tech product scale-up organisations. She is a certified by Scrum Alliance CSP, Scrum.org PSM II and PSPO.

Cat serves teams in their journeys of experimentation and adoption of practices that improve their self-organisation, ownership, and cross-organisation collaboration. She’s facilitated the Design Sprint Camp in Sydney & is an avid investor in mentoring & creating space for Women in Tech.

--- Agenda ---
5:30pm (AEST) Join the call for informal networking
5:45pm Welcome & speaker introduction
5:50pm Presentation from Cat
6:15pm Discussion of participant questions
6:45pm Close

--- SEUs ---
This event earns you 1 Scrum Alliance SEU.

--- Sponsorship ---
Thanks to our organising sponsor Scrum WithStyle for time invested in organising this event & covering the cost of the video conferencing tools that this group uses. https://www.scrumwithstyle.com/

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