{"id":585,"date":"2024-07-15T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T08:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/?page_id=585"},"modified":"2024-07-18T12:06:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T11:06:56","slug":"visual-agile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/scrum-helpline\/visual-agile\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual agile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dear Scrum Helpline,<br><br>I&#8217;m currently working as a Business Analyst in a software development team within a local authority. We aspire to be a cross-functional team, but the reality is the UI design team rules the roost.<br><br>So pretty, high-fidelity designs get presented to the client with almost no consideration of whether they add sufficient value or are even possible to implement.<br><br>The mess then gets dumped on the BA and architect to fill in the specification gaps and reset expectations. <br><br>I feel too far down the foodchain to make much of a difference.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Response by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/guy-maslen-4a988112\/\">Guy Maslen<\/a>, Scrum Master:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Friend,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTell me you are using a homebrew version of Scrum without telling me you are using a homebrew version of Scrum\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you heard this saying before?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By that I mean my go-to tends to be \u201cand when you raised this in your retrospectives what happened?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which then unpacks whether you\u2019ve been having retrospectives, and whether it\u2019s okay to raise difficult topics without relationships being damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More or less that\u2019s Amy Edmondson\u2019s work on psychological safety and learning in teams, which Google went on to adopt as one of their improvement projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No psychological safety? No learning.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No learning? No improvement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The DevOps movement drew on Ron Westrum\u2019s \u201ctypology of organisational cultures,\u201d which basically says the same thing in a different way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deming talked about the impact that \u201cfear\u201d has in the workplace as one of his core points in \u201cOut of the Crisis!\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scrum suggests we need to be \u201ccourageous\u201d, but this is pretty unhelpful without the right support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Either way, I\u2019d guess that the Scrum Master is MIA or lacks the skills to influence the organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a resource that might help: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkwithgoogle.com\/intl\/en-emea\/consumer-insights\/consumer-trends\/five-dynamics-effective-team\">Team dynamics: The five keys to building effective teams &#8211; Think with Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Scrum Helpline, I&#8217;m currently working as a Business Analyst in a software development team within a local authority. We aspire to be a cross-functional team, but the reality is the UI design team rules the roost. So pretty, high-fidelity designs get presented to the client with almost no consideration of whether they add sufficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":476,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-585","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions\/615"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}