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| He is the coach for the Scrum team |
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Synonyms:
Process facilitator. The ScrumMaster is sometimes defined as an Agile variation of the project leader, but this doesn't help the understanding of the role.
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| Role Sets: Scrum Roles |
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Relationships
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| Additionally Performs |
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| Modifies |
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Main Description
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During development, he's in charge of helping the team to work autonomously and constantly improve itself.
To achieve that, he performs the following tasks:
- periodical tasks, their objective is the application of Scrum by organizing and animating the Collaborative work (meetings) :
- Daily Scrum.
- Sprint planning
- Sprint review
- Retrospective
- Event tasks
- eliminitating impediments : taking into consideration events occuring at any time on a project in order to solve them as quickly as possible, while protecting the team from external distractions
- background task
- Make sure the team stays focused on the original project goal, which is to develop backlog items in close collaboration with the product owner, and stays productive.
Analogies
- The Scrum term comes from rugby and eludes to the practice of restarting play when a stoppage occurs during play.
The half-scrum game position is the closest equivalent to the ScrumMaster role.
- Ken Schwaber compares the ScrumMaster to a sheepdog.
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Staffing
| Skills |
Expected Competencies and experience depend on size, and technical as well as management complexity. To play this role, a person should have the following competencies:
- good knowledge of Scrum,
- good presentation, communication and facilitation skills,
- guiding without obliging,
- showing good men leadership and knowing how to motivate a team,
- being a problem and conflict solver,
- honestly communicating on work progress,
- respecting the essential objective: to release a product fulfilling its requirements.
However, it is not necessary to:
- have experience in the application domain (not essential, but can help),
- have technical development competencies.
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| Assignment Approaches |
for a typical Scrum team(6 to 10 persons) , a single person plays this role on a project.
The ScrumMaster can, eventually, participate to sprint tasks with the other team members, but it needs to be limited.
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| Synonyms |
Process facilitator. The ScrumMaster is sometimes defined as an Agile variation of the project leader, but this doesn't help the understanding of the role.
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Key Considerations
- He is not a project leader : he does not lead, nor oblige, neither constrain.
- He is part of the team: he shares responsibility with the other team members.
- He must regularly, physically meet the other team members.
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