AGILE IN ACTION

Friday, 6 January 2006

A Scrum Master is like a skilled helmsman

Posted by Simon Baker
Tags: agile, scrum

A Scrum Master steers a Scrum team like a gifted helmsman steers a boat. He uses the lightest of touches because he knows that each use of the rudder produces drag, which holds the boat back.


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Originally uploaded by sjb140470 .


This is based on an analogy found in Tom DeMarco’ s book, Slack .


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