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| He is the coach for the Scrum team |
| 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
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:
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periodical tasks, their objective is the application of Scrum by organizing and animating the Collaborative work (meetings) :
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Daily Scrum.
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Sprint planning
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Sprint review
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Retrospective
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Event tasks
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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
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background task
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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
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The Scrum term comes from rugby. The half-scrum game position is the closest equivalent to the ScrumMaster role.
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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:
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good knowledge of Scrum,
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good presentation, communication and negociation skills,
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guiding without obliging,
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showing good men leadership and knowing how to motivate a team,
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being a problem and conflict solver,
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honestly commucatiing on work progress,
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respecting the essential objective: to release a product fulfilling its requirements.
However, it is not necessary to:
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have experience in the application domain (not essential, but can help),
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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 witht he 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
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He is not a project leader : he does not lead, nor oblige, neither constrain.
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He is part of the team: he shares responsability with the other team members.
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He must reguraly physically meet the other team members.
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