CSP-SM | THE PROFESSIONAL SCRUM MASTER JOURNEY
Intercultural Agility for Scrum Teams
(culture wave constellations and intercultural agility kata)
In this piece, updated in April 2023, I explore the ideas of team, cross-functionality and cultural diversity in a Scrum/Agile context. Combining these three features, I suggest an exformative approach to culture wave constellations and intercultural agility routines (kata) — thus setting the conditions right, in order for multicultural (and sometimes distributed) teams to emerge.
The current article is in line with the Scrum Alliance learning goals on facilitation defined as part of the CSP-SM learning journey.
the team conundrum
Distributed teams are not teams; they are at best a collection of people who communicate regularly — writes Tobias Mayer (The People’s Scrum, 2013).
Even ten years on, and after the Covid-19 wake-up call and the ensuing work-from-anywhere culture, I still love this quote. It lays bare the…
