How to challenge the Agile team - tips for Scrum Master
I am often told by people who are senior to me to challenge the team and increase the productivity. After all we are in business and if we deliver more than we will in good shape. This s true to some extent as we are ultimately human beings and require some sort of push/motivation to continuously deliver more. I would address this in 2 different ways: A team that is self organized, disciplined,hard working and consistently performing then I would suggest to act as a friend and constantly ask this question " How can we improve" Let the response comes from them. It may be possible that team is doing their best however team may come up with certain areas of improvement. See as a Scrum Master if you can help them. A team which is in its initial stage and may not realize the areas of improvement on their own. In such cases I suggest to act as a coach and keep sharing the best practices with them. The little areas of improvement can change the team to the next level and b...