- Responsible for promoting and supporting Scrum by helping everyone understand Scrum theory, practices, principles, and values.
- Ensure that the Scrum process works well and properly.
- Coach the team on how to use Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
- Work closely with the developers and Product Owner to ensure an Agile culture is established in your team.
- Coach the scrum team in self-organization.
- Identify gaps in the Agile process or skills to improve on, to make the team work better.
- Collaborate closely with the Product Owner to manage the product backlog.
- Facilitate scrum events and other meetings as needed, e.g. product backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective.
- Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
- Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments.
- Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible.
- Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity.
- Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged.
- Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it.
- Helping the Scrum team achieve the Sprint Goal for every sprint.
- Helping the Scrum team deliver the Increment with the Definition of Done
- Motivate/ encourage the scrum team to improve continuously.
- Pay attention to the motivation of team members every day and improve their motivation if there are any low-motivated members.
- Work with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of applying Scrum in the Organization.
