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Week Four Reflection

Teresa E. Sampson

Trevecca Nazarene University

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Week Four Reflection

What is the most significant thing I learned this week?

The most significant thing that I learned this week was about Scrum of Scrums meetings.

According to Saddington (2013), information that needs to be shared with other teams in the

organization can be shared during Scrum of Scrum meetings. This facilitates open

communication between the different teams and allows for everyone to be on the same page.

How did what I learned change my thinking about this weeks topic?

When I first began reading about the Scrum of Scrum meetings, I wasnt quite sure what

that would entail. Once I finished reading the chapter in the textbook, I was able to see how

useful these meetings could be in an organization. It is easy for groups to work in silos without

thinking about how what other teams are working on can impact them. These meetings can help

fill in the gaps and to be able to properly align resources so that there are no redundancies or

gaps.

What previous experiences relate to what I read and learned?

I refer back to my balanced scorecard committee experiences. Our team meets at least

monthly and occasionally we will meet with the executive team to bring them up to speed on our

progress so far. I requested that we have individual meetings with each department head and

their committee representative so that we can build out their section of the balanced scorecard in

our software. Last Friday, we had a council meeting with all of the executives and our team

members and we broke into small groups in the conference room so that we could work on that

departments measures. Our CEO assisted each group as questions arose and reviewed the

measures and asked questions for each group at the end of the meeting. I feel that this level of
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collaboration and communication helped our team and organization significantly. I would like to

incorporate these kinds of meetings more regularly to keep the open communication going.

How will I use (or have I used) this knowledge in my ministry or life?

I intend to incorporate a form of the Scrum of Scrum meetings into the process when

team-to-team member communication is necessary for any group that I am involved with. This

could also be helpful when multiple districts are working on projects that may impact others in

the organization. This might include our Fiber project or maybe the GIS mapping project.

What could I additionally learn about this weeks topic?

I would like to learn more about how different groups or organizations hold their Scrum

of Scrum meetings. As I stated in my discussion post earlier in the week, it may be difficult to

get all of the Scrum Masters together for this type of meeting regularly because of scheduling

conflicts or location. I would like to find out if other groups are using alternate forms of

communication such as virtual meetings, conference calls, etc. when meeting face-to-face is an

issue.

Reference

Saddington, P. (2013). The agile pocket guide: A quick start to making your business agile using

scrum and beyond. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.