Deliberate Practices to Improve Yourself as a Scrum Master
This article was inspired when I watch one of Joshua Partogi’s VLOG on his Youtube channel. His Video title is “How to Increase your AWESOMENESS as a Scrum Master”. In his video he stated that there are 2 methods to increase Scrum Master Awesomeness:
- Passive Learning (example: attending training classes, attending community meetup, etc).
- Active Learning, using Deliberate Practices.
In this article, I will discuss more further about Deliberate Practices.
What is Deliberate Practice ?
It was known used by Professor Anders Ericsson. Deliberate practice refers to a special type of practice that is purposeful and systematic which requires focused attention and is conducted with the specific goal of improving performance.
What is the difference with regular repetitive practice? Regular practice might include mindless repetitions, while Deliberate practice have goal of improving every repetitions.
How Deliberate Practice help improve Scrum Master ?
I will share how our Scrum Master team in tiket.com using Deliberate Practice to improve our skills
Give Induction about Agile & Scrum to New Joiner or Refreshment to Existing Team
By regularly give induction to tiket.com newjoiners, our Scrum Master improve his/her Teaching stance. Each Scrum Master will have opportunity to give induction or can also give refreshment to his/her Scrum team.
Be a Speaker & Facilitator in Community Meetup
We empower our Scrum Masters to challenge themselves by became a Speaker or Facilitator in Community Meetup. He/she will improve Teaching and Facilitation stances.
Give Sharing Session to Public / External
In tiket.com, we oftenly share our knowledge to public or external companies. I got opportunity last year to share about Agile Transformation to one of multi-finance company. We are also open our door to be visited by company or University that want to learn best-practices from tiket.com
By doing this, our Teaching stance will be improved.
Be a Facilitator in Community Coach Camp
I was blessed to have an opportunity to be a member of PSM Alumni Community. In this community, we empower our member to improve themselves by being a Facilitator in our quarterly-held Coach Camp. The most valuable part is the feedbacks from other coaches for our future self-development. Our Facilitation stance will improve a lot.
Buddy / Coaching Program with other Scrum Master
Buddy / Coaching Program is when Scrum Master is mentored by other more-experienced Scrum Master as his/her Coach. The Coach will observe how the Coachee do his/her role as Scrum Master for the Team. Periodically, they will have 1-on-1 coaching session. The Coach will give feedback based on the observation, while Coachee will come up with action plan.
This program will improve Coaching and Mentoring stances.
Write a Blog!
By writing a Blog, you challenge yourself to be speak-up about your opinion or thought. By publishing it, everyone can see your Blog. Your opinion / thought will be validated by persons who read it. You can get feedbacks from the readers in questions, inputs, corrections, challenges, etc.
You can check tiket.com Product & Tech medium here, you’ll find interesting blog written by our awesome team.
By writing a Blog, you can improve your Teaching stances.
Meet our Scrum Masters :
How do you improve yourself as a Scrum Master? Is there any Deliberate Practices that you can share? Please share your thought & input on comment section below, let’s discuss. Cheers!
