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Global Scrum Gathering London 2018: Recap Part 1 – Teams, ScrumMasters and Product Owners<\/h1>\n

After my premiere last year<\/a>, I again visited the one of two yearly Global Scrum Gatherings in Europe. Again it’s been incredibly inspiring even though not one single session topped last year’s Closing Keynote by Lyssa Adkins<\/a>. Nonetheless I want to share the outlines of the sessions I joined at this Global Scrum Gathering and add some more in-depth information or links.<\/p>\n

This post will focus on the Teams, ScrumMaster and Product Owner track, whilst the second post (Global Scrum Gathering London 2018 Recap Part 2) will focus on culture, values, leadership and scaling.<\/p>\n

I’ll start with overcoming fear of rejection when asking questions – which is something I would have wished for during the first two years of my ScrumMaster career. Intercultural aspects of teams is something I learned about quite early, but it’s even still growing in importance in our modern international work setups. The third talk was super valuable for me, as what I do is moderating meetings and workshops or facilitating collaboration various ways: Learning about the core protocols was great!<\/p>\n

Last but not least I’ll write about my conference highlight from the viewpoint of a PO: Jeff Patton’s session will help me support Product Owners in their line of work.<\/p>\n

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What I learned from 100 Days of Rejection – Jia Jiang<\/a><\/h3>\n

Creating better ScrumMasters<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a>\"\"Starting with one of the day 2 keynotes: Rejection Therapy with Jia Jiang. He started with a nice (but awfully sad) anecdote about rejection in his school years and continued with being inspired by Bill Gates and wanting to become an entrepreneur himself. (By the way: Sign up for Bill Gates’ newsletter here<\/a>! Now!) Jia faced rejections all the time. To better cope with it, he started what he called Rejection Therapy<\/strong>: 100 days, 1 challenge a day from small requests to crazy things. It’s all on Youtube, just go here and pick a random number between 1 and 100:<\/p>\n