The Scrum Master Roles and Responsibilities are often misunderstood. This series will go in detail about practical aspects of Scrum Mastery. Scrum Guide says that Scrum Master is accountable for Scrum Team Effectiveness. It further states that Scrum master is the true leader who serves the Scrum Team. However, the Scrum Guide is silent on how Scrum Master can influence and help the Scrum Team to be effective. This series is going to explore exactly this topic. Through these articles, we will try and give some practical suggestions to help you. Read this article to find out a typical day goes for the Scrum Master.
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Scrum Master Roles and Responsibilities to help with Scrum Events
- Scrum Master role in Sprint Planning – Sprint planning is the Scrum Event to make a plan for the work in Sprint. Developers are in charge of this plan the Sprint Backlog. So how can Scrum Master contribute?
- Scrum Master role Daily Scrum – Daily Scrum is the Scrum Event meant for developers to inspect progress towards the Sprint Goal. In fact, only Developers are the mandatory participant. This leads to the question that then how can Scrum Master help with this Scrum Event?
- Scrum Master role in Sprint Review – Sprint Review is the Scrum Event where the stakeholders and Scrum Team can collaborate together to decide the next steps to take. Scrum Master plays an important role to ensure constructive feedback.
- Scrum Master role in Sprint Retrospective Sprint Planning, the daily Scrum and Sprint Review all see the Scrum Master as predominantly a facilitator. However, this changes with Sprint Retrospective. Of course, the Scrum master does participate as a facilitator in the Sprint Retrospective. But in this Scrum Event Scrum Masters role goes beyond facilitator
How Scrum Master can help with day to day working of the Scrum Team
- Causing Impediment Removal
- Supporting the Product Backlog refinement
- Use information radiators burn up /burn down charts to track the work of the Sprint to work more effectively
Building a Great Scrum Team
- Effectively handle real life scenarios Scrum Team may face
- Teaching Scrum Team about Scrum and Empiricism