How would I help my team resolve impediments without depending on me?
Making self dependant teams
Most Scrum Masters believe their job is to remove impediments. It says so right there in the Scrum Guide. It’s the first thing they teach you.
And…
It’s the single biggest reason your team can’t remove impediments… Without YOU!
When teams default to handing you every impediment, two things happen:
you burn out, and
the team learns helplessness
Agility at scale requires autonomous teams that can navigate their own roadblocks. If your team stops moving the moment you are not around, you are basically facilitating dependency.
To help your team resolve impediments without relying on you, you have to intentionally change your stance from fixing to enabling.
In this post, I want to show you
why teams become dependent on their Scrum Masters,
what’s happening in their brains when this happens, and
a four-part behavioural model for rewiring the habit
Let’s get started.
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