What Is A Scrum Team Motivation MAP and How Do I Use It?

A recent student in my Advanced Product Owner Workshop taught me about the concept of building a Team Motivation MAP

M = Mastery:

denotes the inclination of people to become a better version of themselves in any given field. Also, the skills that any individual wants to improve what they do next in a continuous manner.

The Scrum Master strives to master the application of Scrum in order to foster a psychologically safe environment where the efficacy of value delivery is realized at all levels of the organization.

• Influencing and inspiring people to embrace Scrum to improve and sustain it.
• Exploring creative ways to engage people while performing work.
• Building enduring professional relationships during interactions with Scrum Team(s) and stakeholders.

The Product Owner strives to master his Product management skills in order to maximize and optimize the value of the Product.

• Relentless focus on exploring creative ways to communicate product vision and roadmap.
• Identifying impactful interventions to improve the adoption of product features for sustainable growth.
• Improving product discovery techniques to better understand the customer experience as a whole.

The Developers strive to master their software craftsmanship in order to deliver high-quality products for their end customers.

• Learn and build emergent engineering architecture and practices to improve product quality.
• Identify ways to innovate the product features in the marketplace to improve time to market and generate business value.

A = Autonomy:

refers to the choice of freedom provided to people. So that they will self-select ways to achieve the outcomes that create enduring impacts.

The Scrum Master needs the environment with autonomy to devise and experiment with initiatives. To build awareness and co-create paradigm shift towards contemporary management techniques. So that people become aware of their improvement areas and unlock their potential with several unlearning and learning moments. This paves way for them to gain mastery on their path towards becoming a self-managing team.

The Product Owner requires autonomy to take key decisions to maximize product value and optimize the value resulting from the work delivered by the Developers associated with the Scrum Team. So that (s)he gets the appropriate environment required to improve accountability and nurture the Product Ownership to the next level.

The Developers require autonomy to improve development standards and sustain built-in quality while building product increment(s) every Sprint. They must be guided and supported with relevant tools and resources to deliver value. This helps in reducing the accumulated technical debt within the product and fosters their cross-functional skillset and improves self-management capabilities.

P = Purpose: