First Conversation with the Scrum Team

This interview construction is customized from the pattern questions from The First 90 Days, web page 176 (1).

• Meet with every direct report in flip and ask the next questions  
• By asking the identical questions of everybody you may see the place similarities and variations lie, which can show you how to perceive what sort of crew participant every individual is a bit more. 
• Once you will have gone by means of all the information of the interviews, collect the entire crew collectively and talk about what you will have came upon by means of the interviews and have an open dialogue.

• What are the strengths and weaknesses of our present use of Scrum and complementary practices?
• What are the most important challenges and alternatives dealing with us within the brief time period? In the medium time period?
  • In phrases of our Product and offering our clients with worth
  • In phrases of our Scrum crew’s processes and methods of working
• What sources may we leverage extra successfully?
  • In phrases of our processes
  • In phrases of our instruments
  • In phrases of people in our crew
  • In phrases of our interactions inside and out of doors the crew
• How may we enhance the best way the crew works collectively?
• If you had been in my place, what would your priorities be?

People 

• How do you assume the talents and tasks are balanced within the crew? 
• If there’s a mistake/ failure throughout the crew, is it brazenly mentioned in crew occasions? What about with exterior stakeholders?
• Is there anybody contained in the crew or externally who has a giant affect on the best way we work or what/how we develop, and why? 

Land mines 

• What was the latest surprises that detonated and put us off monitor?
  • What is the most typical? 
• What doubtlessly damaging cultural or political missteps should you keep away from? 

Practices

• Are there any Scrum or complementary practices that you recognize about that you just assume would profit us as a crew?
• What are the latest enhancements that had been made to our practices?
  • Who lead the change?
  • Do you assume it was profitable/ worthwhile?
  • Was there any opposition to the change?
• What present components of our course of frustrates you probably the most?

1. The First 90 days by Michael D. Watkins

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