Hey guys, Anatoly from Define Agile here. Today I’m going to be answering a couple of questions from Sint.
What are the top three KPIs for a Scrum Master and Agile Coach during their three months at a company?
That’s a great question. Not many people talk about KPIs for Agile Coach and Scrum Masters. I think that they should have KPIs. I think that they should plan to do something cool and then make sure that our people will keep them accountable for it.
When I joined the team, that I am currently consulting, my KPI was: “I want to make you the most efficient team in the department in three months.” That was my KPI.
The reasonable KPI’s would be:
“I want to set up Agile ceremonies in one or multiple teams.”
“I want to have an Agile workshop that everyone in the company understands Agile”
“I want to make sure to meet with every team member, understand their concerns and resolve most of them.”
“I want to set up Jira in such a way that people will find it useful.”
“I want to help create a process around interaction with our stakeholders”
“I want to improve transparency and happiness” ( you can measure that by having some happiness with your exercises on your retrospectives).
The next question is:
Scrum Masters/Agile Coaches we are often givers of the team as resources, removing blockers, etc. How does one fuel himself personally with new ideas to experiment?
I fuel myself with ideas by asking my team. I ask people, what would they think would helpful? They might say: “Maybe we should do this, maybe we should do that,” I say, “Definitely, let’s try that.” This is how new ideas would work. I gather information and act on it right away.
Since I have experience working with different teams, I might recommend them some ideas.
Also, I am part of Facebook/Linkedin/Reddit groups. I read books about Agile, about Scrum. I talk to people in the industry and then we share what works, what doesn’t. I have many peers that I know who work in different companies and they have many different ideas, so we share them as well.
Thanks for reading, hope that helps!
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