Scrum Master? Maybe you have heard about this position before.
well, In this article you will have the opportunity to know more about his roles and duties and maybe his skills too.
So First, the scrum master role was created as a part of the Agile framework or team.
The name of scrum master means the one who is professional or expert and master who can coach or lead people (Team).
The Scrum Master:
He is the one who is responsible for following up with teams and here I mean that the scrum master has to make sure that the team follows the process that the team agreed they would use.
Note: Scrum master trains the team on agile principles.
His Responsibilities and Duties
1- Clearing obstacles: The scrum master should support the teams and should clear obstacles, one of these obstacles is the work environment
2-Facilitates the team’s progress towards team goals: this is one of the most important things that the scrum master has to do is facilitating and to update or improve the team performance and help the team to focus on daily tasks or goals
3-Facilitates meetings: the Daily Stand-up to be only 10 to 15 min, Iteration Planning, and Iteration Review to be to the main point not to be out of context.
4-Coordinates with other teams and the Product Owner: the scrum master should be supportive not only the team but also should support the (PO) and coordinate the tasks, Daily Stand-up, and other processes between team and product owners.
5-Acting as a Coach for Team Development: the scrum master must teach the team how to read the stories and let them focus on the sprint goals, and set up a physical task board and shows the team how to use it.
Scrum Values:
Agile wise we can find the value of the importance of the scrum role or the reason why scrum existed in the result of the work done by team, I mean when we found the team without distributing that means that we have a good scrum master because if the scrum is not excited we are going to find that the team have the task to coordinate the tasks and they are going to be distributed and faced the problem of multitasking or maybe they are going to face a lot of switching from task to task all of this have a negative impact on productivity and progressing as well.
Note: Scrum master should understand the vision and the goals of the software while being built, the lean canvas, and User Stories.
Scrum Master With Product Owner:
They must support, coordinate, and cooperate with each other.one of the important things for any project to be successful is that the scrum master and the product owner to have the same flow and goals.
The scrum master should attend all the meetings with the leaders, teams, and product owners to has the knowledge and to be aware of any changes or updates. Also, he must know clearly the stories and the rules of each sprint ….. Etc
Plus, the scrum master has to help the PO in Demo, review, and Daily Stand-up process.
The skills you might need to be a Scrum Master
There are a lot of skills that should be in anyone who works in teams and work in general but the scrum master should really have these skills to be clear in his personality. They should be active to let the team be always motivated, being facilitator to facilitate the tasks and the performance, should know how to be a leader because he is one of the Agile teams who lead the team, the scrum master must take care of deadlines cause he knows that there is no extra time after the sprint time is finished so he should Clear obstacles and make a good and great work environment for the teams.
We at Agile Arena do qualify the Scrum Master to have all of those skills, as well as coaching him prctically during his work. that is through our program Qualified Scrum Master
In the end,
Scrum master, product owner (PO), and Product manager all of them have the same goal and vision. They are trying to build the products with Agile principles and via effective Lean-Agile practices and they are trying to let the team follow these principles.
Written by: Marah Adel, Copywriter at Agile Arena