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The basics of being a ScrumMaster are fairly straightforward: At face value, all a ScrumMaster needs to do is facilitate the Scrum process and remove impediments. But being a great ScrumMaster, one who truly embodies the principles of servant-leadership and helps nurture a high-performing team, is much harder and more elusive.

Scrum is the most successful framework for agile product development, and much has been written about how to follow the Scrum process, but the key to success is in the leadership skills of the product owner. Product Mastery explores the traits of the best product owners, offering an insight into the difference between good and great product ownership and explaining how the best product owners are driven to be successful.

If you have ever been part of a great team, you will know it is exponentially better than being part of a mediocre team. Teams are at the heart of working in complex domains and are essential to the success of agile approaches yet relatively few teams achieve greatness. Agile and leadership coach Geoff Watts has pulled together his many years of experience with all sorts of teams from software to product development, from medical teams to sports teams and has identified five common characteristics of great teams:

Our strengths can become our weaknesses. Our traits and habitual behaviors can become traps. In each chapter of The Coach's Casebook the listener follows a skilled coach working with a client who is struggling with one of the 12 traits that every coach will face in their coaching work - traits such as people pleasing, perfectionism, impostor syndrome, performance anxiety, and procrastination. In each of the case studies in The Coach's Casebook, the coach shares their emotions, their thought processes and their reflections.

Looking for some quick exercises to run at the beginning of a group meeting or workshop to break the ice? Here are 40 ice-breaker activities to get any meeting off to a great start.

Thirty-six powerful coaching questions to help you or your clients break their paradigm and open up new opportunities.

These coaching cards are a useful aid for agile teams who are looking for ways to freshen up their retrospectives or inspiration for what to focus on. Each card will prompt the team with either reflective questions to examine, tips for what to try, or reminders of what makes a great retrospective.