Scrum Masters are servant leaders and coaches for an Agile Team who help educate the team in Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe, ensuring that the agreed Agile process is being followed. Scrum Masters help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
The Scrum Master primary responsibility is assisting the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve its goals by teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices, identifying and eliminating impediments, and facilitating flow.
Scrum Masters work with the extended Scrum Master community, including SAFe Program Consultant, Release Train Engineer, Product Owners and Architecture to increase the effectiveness of SAFe across the enterprise.
, Requirements,
Education
- Bachelors degree or Diploma in Computer Science or Information Science or Information Technology
- Certified Scrum Master E.g. Professional Scrum Master (PSM I or II), SAFe Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance or equivalent.
Facilitates events and the teams progress toward team goals
The Scrum Master is trained as a team facilitator and is continuously engaged in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
Coordinates With Other Teams
The Scrum Master supports the teams efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships with other teams. They frequently represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS), helping the team remain aware of opportunities to engage and improve program effectiveness (see Program Increment for more details).
Problem Solving
Many blocking issues will be beyond the teams authority or may require support from other teams. The Scrum Master supports the team in addressing and eliminating these issues to improve the likelihood of achieving the objectives of the Iteration.
Continuous improvement
Helps the team improve and take responsibility for their actions; facilitates the team retrospective. Teaches problem-solving techniques and helps the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.
Maintaining Quality
Fosters the culture of technical discipline and craftsmanship that is the hallmark of effective Agile teams.
Coaching
The Scrum Master supports the overall adoption of SAFe across the enterprise by coaching the Product Owner, team members and other non-agile teams on effective interactions with agile teams, participating in the Scrum Master Community of Practice, and supporting the organizations SPCs.
