Scrum & Personal Professional Development
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by Rami Kaibni
Managing any project successfully is all about Team Work combined with years of Accrued Expertise. It is an asset to have an educational background that compliments your field of expertise but "education" without "experience" is like an "arrow" without a "bow." You can never make a perfect shot with a temporary arrow unless you have a permanent bow called: "Life's Experience." Remember, you can never teach experience but you can always teach from experience.
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As much as it might sound odd, but I actually find a connection between Scrum & Personal Professional Development:
I always treat Personal Professional Development as a continuous Product that is divided into phases where each phase has its own achievements "Increments".
That being said, it is always healthy to run your own personal "Sprint Retrospective" to Inspect your Achievements "Releasable Increment", Compare them to your original Plans "Sprint Backlog" and Adapt as necessary.
If your progress is going on as planned then you carry on with your next goal "Sprint". If not, then you re-add what was not achieved to your plan "Product Backlog" and re-order your priorities in terms of professional development and plans your next goal "Sprint Planning".
The only difference is with the scrum team itself as you are the whole Self-Organizing & Cross-Functional Team taking the role of Scrum Master, Product Owner & Development Team:
- You are the Product Owner who maximizes the value of his professional development by checking what best serves his career, where the market is trending and what employers look for.
- You are the Scrum Master who ensures that you are conducting your recaps as necessary and in timely manner.
- You are the Development Team who works hard on studying to achieve the goal as planned.
How much does this make sense to you ? Can you see the relationship ?
Scrum On Everyone !
Posted on: March 25, 2018 05:15 AM |
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Good analogies Rami, and yes I do see the relationship. We Scrumians see order and value in these ceremonies, roles, rules and artifacts.
Drew Craig
Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard
Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Rami, I definitely agree! And do the same.
Good analogy, Rami! The only change I'd suggest is that personal development is not a project but rather a product, namely a better you!
Kiron
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
@Sante, Where did you come up with the Scrumians Term lol Cool ...
@Andrew, Cheers
@Kiron, I certainly agree. Noted, I will change it in the blog.
Rami just made it up haha. I wonder if it was never coined before.
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
LOL I like it .... Scrumians ... It sounded like some kind of cartoon show.
Vincent Guerard
Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance
Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Thanks
Very nice way to put it
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
@Vincent, @Charudatta, Thank You.
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