Journey to Agile with Scrum Masters
Journey to Agile with Scrum Masters
A large insurance company needed to switch to an agile process to manage its complex product development.
This meant the organization had to switch from a project-oriented to one consisting of agile cross-functional teams. The team’s starting point was Scrum, and the new Scrum Masters had a background as project managers.
My task was to help the project managers and the new teams to transition into their new roles.
During the first 4 months, I helped the new teams and the newly assigned Scrum Masters with:
- Introduces the teams to Agile and Scrum
- Starting their first Scrum events and building a well-structured product backlog together with their Product owner
- Coached the new Scrum Masters with a focus on the difference between the Project manager role and the Scrum Master role
- Established a shared Community of Practices for the Scrum Masters to accelerate the onboarding and continuous Scrum Master development
- Training for their new Product Owners
For the business, the result was
- Teams had an agile foundation that enabled them to accelerate their improvement as a team
- The Scrum Master role was not only clearly defined, but the new Scrum Masters also adopted it
- The complexity of the products was handled by the team and not outside, resulting in better and more efficient solutions
- Better results in their Scaled agile setup as teams were aligned with Scrum and Agile
