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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

Another popular approach is the facilitator-coach , often called a Scrum Master , 3 who leads from the sidelines by facilitating conversations and resolving organizational roadblocks. 3 The name “Scrum Master” originated in the popular “Scrum” method. Help individual team members develop their careers.

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AoAD2 Practice: Incident Analysis

James Shore

For example, during an outage, continuing to troubleshoot a failing router after logs show that traffic successfully transitioned over to the backup router. In this case, a closer look at the event reveals that, although the team used test-driven development and pairing for production code, they didn’t apply that standard to their scripts.