What do you do as a scrum master?
I help the cross-functional scrum team in becoming high-performing and self-managed.
What is a self-managed team?
Self-managed teams are autonomous teams to decide what, how, and who within the team.
What is a cross-functional team?
A team of people coming up from different backgrounds such as IT, marketing, business, operation, quality, etc.
What you do to have a cross-functional self-managed team?
I uphold scrum, facilitate team decisions, coach, mentor, teach, and work on impediments.
What do you mean by upholding scrum?
It means I ensure Scrum team respects rules, enable transparency at work, abide Scrum values, and practice empiricism.
What’s the role of a Scrum Master in delivery?
Scrum Master commit to the sprint goal, make strategies with the team to meet the goal, and help them stay focused by removing impediments.
What facilitation means?
As a facilitator, my job is to facilitate Scrum events such as sprint planning, review, and retrospective whenever needed to achieve maximum value. Although my most time goes in facilitating team decisions and sometimes I also facilitate conflict resolution.
How a Scrum Master enable transparency?
Scrum Artifacts are there for transparency, and I ensure those artifacts are up to date, visible and help everyone get actual updates at any given point of time.
How do you deal with conflict within the team?
Self-managed team resolves their conflict themselves. Sometimes I do facilitate conflict resolution, but when the team requests to facilitate.
Why a full-time Scrum Master needed?
Scrum doesn’t mandate to have a full-time scrum master, but part-time scrum masters struggle with task-switch and can’t focus on scrum mastery. Most part-time scrum masters only focus on facilitating scrum events and impediment resolution and hardly spend time teaching, mentoring, and coaching.
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