The Scrum Master

1. The Scrum Master (SM) is accountable for:
   • Establishing Scrum (as per the Scrum Guide) in the Scrum team and the Organization
   • The Scrum Teams effectiveness
2. The SM is a true leader who serves:
   • The Scrum Team by:
     • Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress
     • Ensuring that all Scrum events that take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox
   • The Product Owner by:
     • Helping find techniques for effective Product Goal Definition & Product Backlog Management
     • Facilitating stakeholder collaboration as needed.
   • The Organization by:
     • Leading, coaching & training them on Scrum adoption.

1. If the SM (or PO) is actively working on PBIs in a Sprint, they do so as “developers”.
2. The SM acts as a team coach and teacher. They manage not the people but the process.
   • They possess what’s called “Process Authority” and make sure everyone understand and embraces the Scrum theory, values, rules, and practices.
3. The Scrum Master is NOT a Project Manager
   • A Project Manager role does not exist in Scrum
4. The SM can work part-time as well as full-time.
5. Scrum doesn’t prohibit one person to act as a SM and a PO but it doesn’t recommend it either.
6. The SM can work on multiple Products & Product Teams.