The Silence Test — How to Know Your Team Doesn't Need You Anymore | Mirco Gerling
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Mirco Gerling discusses the importance of self-management in teams and how Scrum Masters can recognize when their team no longer needs them.
Mirco Gerling: The Silence Test — How to Know Your Team Doesn't Need You Anymore Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes . "Don't talk too much. And only talk if it's necessary." - Mirco Gerling For Mirco, success as a Scrum Master starts with a simple rule he had to fight for: don't try to be someone else. Early in his career, when people kept saying "Mirco, you decide, you're the Scrum Master," he had to do the hard work of pushing back — "no, we decide together." That instinct shapes his whole definition of success. Be authentic. Wait before you speak. Ask before you instruct. And when a discussion stalls, sit with the silence — because in most cases, someone in the team has a better idea than you do. The cleanest test of whether a team is truly self-managing? Disappear. When Mirco took two months of parental leave, his team kept running every Scrum event without him. That's the signal. If you stop sending the sprint review invite, stop preparing the retrospective, stop nudging — and the team picks it up because they own it — your work is…
People in this episode
Host: Vasco Duarte
Guest: Mirco Gerling
Topics covered
- Scrum Master
- team dynamics
- self-management
- Agile coaching
- communication
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