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Scrum Masters are servant-leaders who facilitate and coach Scrum teams, ensuring they adhere to Scrum principles, practices, and values.
Facilitate by ensuring these meetings stay focused, time-boxed, and promote team collaboration, communication, and goal alignment.
Scrum is an agile framework with roles like Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Development Team, emphasizing iterative development and customer value.
Identify and address impediments, encourage team self-organization, and facilitate retrospectives for continuous improvement.
The Product Owner represents stakeholders and prioritizes the product backlog. Collaborate by facilitating backlog refinement and aligning goals with the Product Owner.
Promote transparency by maintaining up-to-date burndown charts, product backlogs, sprint goals, and sprint progress for stakeholders.
Manage by fostering open communication, promoting trust, addressing conflicts early, and encouraging the team to self-organize and resolve issues.
Sprint planning defines the work to be done in a sprint. It ensures the team understands the sprint goal, selects backlog items, and creates a sprint backlog.
Collaborate with the Product Owner to prioritize user stories based on business value, customer feedback, and development capacity.
Changes to the sprint backlog should be minimized. If necessary, discuss with the Product Owner and team and assess the impact on the sprint goal.
Velocity is measured by the amount of work completed in a sprint. It is used to estimate future sprints and helps with release and capacity planning.
Scrum of Scrums is a meeting for coordination among multiple Scrum teams, addressing dependencies, impediments, and aligning efforts in large-scale projects.
Facilitate retrospectives to reflect on the sprint, identify improvement opportunities, and implement changes to enhance the team's processes and outcomes.
The DoD sets the quality criteria for a user story to be considered done. Ensure consistency by regularly reviewing and refining the DoD with the team.
Encourage self-organization by empowering the team to make decisions, take ownership of their work, and hold themselves accountable for sprint goals.
Scrum Masters identify and address risks and issues early, facilitating communication and problem-solving to maintain sprint progress and minimize disruptions.
Collaborate with the Product Owner and stakeholders to assess changes, prioritize them, and ensure they align with the product vision and sprint goals.
Sprint burndown charts track the remaining work in a sprint. They help teams visualize progress, identify potential delays, and take corrective actions.
Maintain a clear sprint goal, prioritize work accordingly, and help the team understand the value of their efforts, aligning them with the product vision.
The DoR defines the criteria for backlog items to be considered ready for sprint planning. Work with the team to create and refine the DoR.
Encourage learning through retrospectives, knowledge sharing, training opportunities, and experimentation to adapt and improve team processes.
Assist the team in estimating user stories using techniques like story points. Collaborate with the Product Owner to prioritize and plan sprints.
Maintain regular communication with stakeholders, provide updates on project progress, and manage expectations by being transparent about what can be delivered.
Collaborate with external teams or stakeholders, identify dependencies early, and negotiate agreements to minimize disruptions to the Scrum team's work.
Scrum Masters identify bottlenecks by observing the team's workflow and facilitating discussions. They help the team find solutions and improve processes for efficiency.
Maintain a clear sprint goal, prioritize work, and prevent scope changes during the sprint to ensure a potentially shippable product.
Use video conferencing, collaboration tools, and clear communication channels to facilitate remote team collaboration while upholding Scrum principles.
The Daily Standup provides team members with a platform to share their progress, align on goals, and identify impediments. Keep it focused and time-boxed to 15 minutes.
Work with the Product Owner to refine backlog items, prioritize based on value, and ensure they are well-defined, ready for sprint planning, and aligned with the sprint goal.
Guide the team in maintaining focus on the sprint goal and the DoD, encourage collaboration, and remove impediments that hinder progress.
Facilitate the team's response to changes, adjust the sprint backlog as needed, and collaborate with the Product Owner to manage stakeholder expectations.
Measure velocity by tracking completed story points or tasks in previous sprints. To improve, address impediments and work on continuous process enhancements.
The DoR defines the criteria for backlog items to be considered ready for sprint planning, ensuring clarity, detail, and alignment with the sprint goal.
Encourage self-organization by supporting the team's decision-making, fostering a culture of learning and adaptation, and promoting regular retrospectives.
Coach the team on Scrum values, facilitate adherence to Scrum principles, and ensure that Scrum practices are followed to maintain a Scrum-oriented work environment.
Balance autonomy with collaboration by defining clear sprint goals, enabling self-organization, and providing guidance when alignment is required.
Promote transparency by providing clear, honest information about project status, issues, and risks, allowing stakeholders to make informed decisions.
Collaborate with the Product Owner to prioritize the product backlog based on business value and regularly communicate with stakeholders to manage expectations.
Facilitate regular inspections through ceremonies like Daily Standup, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, enabling the team to adapt and improve their work.
Help the team maintain focus on delivering valuable increments in each sprint by aligning work with the product vision and refining the product backlog.
Monitor team capacity, address signs of burnout, encourage work-life balance, and adjust workloads or timelines when necessary to protect team well-being.
Encourage the team to reflect on feedback, identify improvement actions, and implement them in the subsequent sprints for continuous enhancement.
Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to minimize disruptions, adapt to external dependencies, and manage expectations to keep the team focused on sprint goals.
Encourage the team to set challenging goals, recognize their achievements, and provide opportunities for skill development to keep them motivated and engaged.
Facilitate discussions in sprint retrospectives to understand the reasons for incomplete work, identify improvement areas, and adjust future commitments accordingly.
Educate stakeholders about the team's capacity, focus on maintaining a sustainable pace, and provide data to support the team's efforts to deliver high-quality work.
Encourage the team to identify root causes in retrospectives, experiment with corrective actions, and monitor results to drive lasting process improvements.
Coach the team on Agile principles, guide them in exploring Lean and Kanban concepts, and adapt practices to complement Scrum as needed.
Foster collaboration by removing silos and encouraging cross-functional team interactions. Promote knowledge sharing through pairing, mentoring, and open communication.
Encourage experimentation, create a safe space for idea sharing, and support a culture of innovation that allows the team to explore new solutions and approaches.
