Transcript
Host (0:06)
Have you ever wondered what it really takes to make Agile work well? At the Global Agile Summit, we're bringing you real life first person stories of Agile succeeding out there in the real world that will inspire you to take action. Whether you're a leader, a product innovator, a developer, you'll hear practical insights from those who've done it. They'll be telling their own stories from the stage. I'll tell you more about this at the end of this episode. So stay back and listen to the full detailed description of what we have in store for you at the Global Agile Summit. But if you can't wait, you can go right now to globalagilesummit.com and check out our full schedule for now onto the episode. But I'll see you at the end of this episode with more details on the Global Agile Summit. Talk to you soon. Hello everybody. Welcome to our team Tuesday and this week. Joining us from Belgrade in Serbia is Marina Lazowicz. Hey, Marina, welcome back.
Marina Lazowicz (1:13)
Hi. Hi. Nice to be back.
Host (1:16)
So Tuesday is Team Tuesday. Of course. We'll talk about teams in a second though, because first we want to know, Marina, what was the book that most inspired you as a Scrum Master?
Marina Lazowicz (1:28)
It's very difficult to name one, like going through different steps of my learning curve. There were a lot of different things that were very important at the time, but I'll try to name one or maybe a couple that I think are important, were important to me and could be useful, I think, to a lot of especially new Scrum Masters. One of the biggest ones that I can maybe advise someone to read is the five Dysfunctions of a Team. I know that's probably something that's not new that a lot of Scrum Masters recommend, but I think it's really worth it. There is so much to take away out of that book. Learning all the dysfunctions with so many good examples that you can really actually see in practice. For me, while I was reading the book first time, I found there were so many awe moments like, oh, this is why this happens. When you see lack of accountability and then behaviors, oh, so that's what it is. And you can point out to all of these dysfunctions. And really then I think it's very useful for Scrum Master to use all of this information, even share them with the team when they realized, okay, the team is having maybe this function, point it out and use it as a starting conversation with the team to discuss very transparently. Okay, I noticed that we have this problem or this challenge in the team. So let's try to see how we can overcome it. So I think that is one of very useful books that I would recommend.
Host (3:24)
Yeah, absolutely. It's classic but it is an amazing book and filled with very actionable ideas too. Right. It's of course the patterns you can easily recognize, but a lot of ideas of what. So definitely check out the Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. But of course, Marina, we're here to talk about the teams and how sometimes they create their own problems, just like in that tale or fable as Lencioni calls it, of the Five Dysfunctions of a Team. So tell us that story, give us a little bit of context so that we understand, you know, what kind of project it is, what kind of team it is and then walk us through how these small little behaviors developed, grew and eventually created problems for the team.