Agile Blog: Role of Scrum Master - Dealing with Conflict Avoidance Teams
Have you come across teams where only a few speak and the rest listen ?
Have you seen any of your team members not sharing their thoughts or participating well during Scrum meetings, retrospectives or other activities ?
Have you come across any team where there is no conflict ?
Silent Teams
The teams where you don't see conflict, I would call them as "Silent teams" for the sake of this article are silent in speech, but not really silent in their mind. The people in this teams are like any other people but all their questions, frustrations, arguments everything is going only in their mind. They never speak up or discuss things in front of a group, especially if their ideas conflict with others. But there are chances that they go and share their frustrations with some one closer to them in the team during the cafe breaks or with any other close friend.
