Measuring Success Through Team Evolution | Anamaria Ungureanu

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Anamaria Ungureanu: Tracking Scrum Team Behavioral Evolution Over Time

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Anamaria defines Scrum Master success by focusing on team behavioral trends and performance evolution over time. She monitors how teams increase trust with stakeholders, demonstrate commitment, and apply agile behaviors consistently. Her approach emphasizes seeking regular feedback from stakeholders and conducting honest self-assessments to ensure the Scrum Master role is truly maximizing team performance. Success isn't measured by a single moment but by sustained positive change in team dynamics and delivery capabilities.

Featured Retrospective Format for the Week: Stop/Start/Continue with Enhanced Focus

Anamaria recommends the classic Stop/Start/Continue format but emphasizes the importance of varying the questions and bringing both quantitative and qualitative data to drive meaningful conversations. She suggests picking specific themes for each retrospective (like testing) and ensuring that discussions lead to concrete, actionable outcomes rather than just surface-level feedback.

Self-reflection Question: How do you currently measure your effectiveness as a Scrum Master, and what trends in your teams indicate genuine progress versus superficial compliance?

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About Anamaria Ungureanu

Anamaria Ungureanu is an Agile evangelist driving transformations across IT, airlines, and automotive. She delivers projects with firms like IBM and Airbus, coaches from executives to teams in SAFe and Scrum, leads assessments, customizes workshops, and supports tool adoption, like Jira, and digital whiteboards like MIRO.

You can link with Anamaria Ungureanu on LinkedIn.