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Establishing norms

Establishing norms

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Establishing norms

- While not required by scrum, team norms, or working agreements, are a good thing to establish. When you take the time to lead your scrum team through a norming session, you're helping them move more quickly through the team growth stages of forming, storming, norming, and performing. In essence, you're helping them get to the performance stage faster. So what goes into team norms? Well, the goal is to help all the individuals express behaviors that will help them perform at the best of their abilities. As the scrum master, and owner of the scrum process, your tasked with helping the scrum team become high performing. Helping the team establish these norms early on helps you get them to high performance faster. So what are the topics generally covered by team norms? Let's examine some common categories. Norms should cover the way team members interact with each other. This category covers things like, all opinions, and ideas will be considered equally and thoughtfully. Team members…

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