A little help from a good friend!

They say that every people you happen to know in your life is there for a reason. If there is one person that I need to mention here is Guilherme Komel (@gkomel). A few weeks before our transition to our new job positions, he told me about a book that could help me fill the gaps to be able to accomplish my new tasks with ease. The book was: “How to win friends & influence people“, by Dale Carnegie.

The book

Yes, this book definitively had an impact on me. I recommend its reading for anyone in a position of influence. It teaches the right ways to approach people so that everyone will want to follow you and accomplish things in your name, once that things are related to a noble cause. A must read for every Agile Coach.

The Return of the Jedi

It was a long time since my last post. To be short: in a certain point in time I was a ScrumMaster and suddenly I was the manager of an entire ScrumMasters team, being responsible for the entire company’s software development process. Today I will start a series of posts about the learnings and insights that I had during this awesome period.

The Team

Our team was composed by 8 ScrumMasters and known as “ScrumOffice”, and I, the ScrumOfficer. Our main objective was to optimize the value chain between the business requirements conception until its delivery to the production environment, passing through development, of course. Our main pillars were: planning, conduction and optimization.

The Shepherd

My job was to guide the team in how to achieve excellency in our company’s Agile implementation, respecting the company’s constraints and trying to change/break/push/pull some of those constraints, paradoxically. And the tale started…