- 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
- 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.
- The Scrum Team by:
- If the SM (or PO) is actively working on PBIs in a Sprint, they do so as “developers”.
- 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.
- The Scrum Master is NOT a Project Manager
- A Project Manager role does not exist in Scrum
- The SM can work part-time as well as full-time.
- Scrum doesn’t prohibit one person to act as a SM and a PO but it doesn’t recommend it either.
- The SM can work on multiple Products & Product Teams.
What is a Scrum Master?
A scrum master is the scrum team member tasked with fostering an effective and productive working environment and guiding others to understand scrum values, principles and practices. Scrum masters tend to be people-oriented, have a high level of emotional intelligence, and find joy in helping team members to grow.
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