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Ashish Mahajan  
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From: Ashish Mahajan <ashishmahaj...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:39:22 +0530
Local: Wed, Nov 17 2010 9:09 am
Subject: Re: [Scrum] Advice Needed for Difficult Developers
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Scrum is a tool.
Not  a goal.
Scrum can help you reach your goal.
I think the team  lacks the urgency to move to Scrum.
Instead of Selling Scrum , sell its results.
1-0-1 coaching may help , as in a group real cause might not come up.
Use the technique of 5 Whys...
May be there are other dysfunctions , which Scrum surfaces very fast..
Does the management believe in Agile ?
Did using Scrum benifit the team in last 2 months ?
Is the team self Organized?

I believe Scrum surfaces many problems in  a team very fast.
It brings the problems painfully clear.
One of the technique is to follow the retrospective so religiously, and
follow it so badly , that the team starts realizing the power of
Scrum activities.
Sometimes , it is also necessary to hear the grudges of people.The may be
right.

Ashish

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Divakar Singh <divakar.p.si...@gmail.com>wrote:

>  To me it is interesting to see:

> "All of the developers are VERY combative and VERY unprofessional and VERY
> rude. "

> I have heard this kind of statements from Scrum skeptics, not from
> believers :-)
> May be Anita would like to give some examples why she thinks like that.

> "I was hired as Scrum Master" is also somewhat strange statement to me.

> Best Regards,
> Divakar.

> Bachan Anand wrote:

> Anita,
> Glad to see another thought provoking question.

> On Nov 16, 2010, at 4:51 AM, Anita <dabaile...@gmail.com> <dabaile...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  I really need some advice.  On my current project with an oil and gas
> client in Houston, I am having extreme difficulty from the developers
> on my team.  Most of them having never used any software development
> process.  In their previous projects (4 of them), they were given
> requirements, put in a room, and then developed code on their own.
> There is one developer, the 5th, who worked at another oil and gas
> company for 2.5 years.  He knows the Scrum process used at Chevron.

> That former oil and gas developer joined the project about 3 weeks
> ago.  I joined the project about 1 month after the development start;
> I've been on this project for about 2 months.  I was hired to act as
> the ScrumMaster for the development process.

> All of the developers are VERY combative and VERY unprofessional and
> VERY rude.  I have tried different ways and hybrids to buy-in from the
> team on a process that will work for this project.  They say that they
> want to use Scrum, but they for some reason are they are behaving this
> way.

>  Why do they say they want to use Scrum?

>  The team completed a phase 1 implementation using a hybrid approach.
> However, for this next phase, due to the amount of detail in the
> requirements and backlog, the Scrum process needs to improve.

>  Does the team feels any improvement is required ? Could you please clarify what you mean by Scrum process need to improve ?

>  Have you ever experienced this?  How have you implemented Scrum in
> such a difficult environment?
> Any guidance and advice you have is GREATLY appreciated.

>  Any change is hard and I experience it with Scrum implementation and in other areas as well . As others have stated for anyone to be change agent . Either you need to gain trust and respect or you need to team up with other in the org who already have trust and respect of the team . How does that apply in your current situation.

> Good luck and looking forward to your success as a ScrumMaster

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