Some weeks ago I met with Todd Galloway, Scrum Master with Square Two Financial. Todd has a passion for helping teams to improve, assessing their health, and helping them get where they need to be. For Todd a lot of fundamentals go into helping teams to deliver value sustainably.
In our discussion we addressed the following:
- The Agile Denver Scrum Master Guild.
- Spotify's Squad Health Check (also known as a Team Health Check).
- Todd's experience with the Team Health Check.
- Coaching questions, lively discussions, and learning.
- His recommended frequency for doing Squad Health Checks.
- The Health Check questions with which his teams struggled most.
- The challenge in motivating teams when a compelling mission is absent.
- How powerful questions can help your teams to improve their creativity and collaboration.
- End of Sprint pressure and problems with Scrum.
- Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban.
- Bottlenecks and the need for greater flow.
- The power in making commitments and setting clear and unifying goals.
- Trust and information biases.
- The importance in discussing the results of the Team Health Check during the same session.
- Assessing team health in low trust environments.
- And much more.
And now welcome to my discussion with Todd Galloway.