Goals
- Give the team clear focus: on the sprint goal, on the sprint
duration, on the product
- Remove Impediments: solve, remove and escalate impediments
- Empower the team: to manage their work, to accept reponsibility, to update the team wall and sprint burn down, to solve problems
- Protect the team
- from additional work being "sneaked" into the sprint from
business, PM, Management
- Promote collaboration: across functions, across teams, across boundries
Typical ScrumMaster Tasks that overlap with Project Management
- Project Kick-offs and Celebrations: Book, Fund, Facilitate
- Teams: Create, Empower, Protect, Define Structure & Roles &
Responsibilities
- Scrum of Scrums: Book meeting, Facilitate, Remove or Escalate Impediments
- Status Reporting: Translate Story List, Burn Charts, Sprint Plan, Team Wall, into traditional status reports
- Issue Management: aka Impediment Backlog, Escalate, Publish, Resolve
- Workspace: Acquire,
Arrange, Approve Changes, Improve
- Equipment,
Tools, Toys and Food: Approve, Fund, Procure, Distribute
- One-on-one team member coaching: Book,
Followup, Remediate
- Walk the floor: Manage by walking around
- Release Planning: Book meeting, Prepare, Present,
Capture, Publish
- Estimation: Book meeting, Prepare,
Facilitate, Capture, Publish
- Release Burn Up Chart:
Calculate, Publish, Maintain
- Sprint Schedule: Set, Publish, Maintain
- Capacity Planning: Forecast, Calculate,
Publish
- Capacity Tracking: Capture Holidays, Sick Leave, Non-Project Work
- Resource cost forecasting:
Calculate, Publish
- Resource
cost tracking: Capture, Publish
- Scope and change management moves to the Product Owner role
Typical ScrumMaster Tasks - Training: Introduce Scrum, Demonstrate, Support, Mentor, Promote
- StandUp: Book meeting, Facilitate, Improve
- Impediment Backlog: Maintain and Escalate
- Sprint Planning: Book meeting, Facilitate, Document, Publish
- Implement Slack: Plan 80% of capacity
- Sprint Review: Book meeting, Prepare, Facilitate,
Capture, Publish
- Sprint Retrospective: Book meeting, Prepare, Facilitate, Capture,
Publish
- Improvements: Create Cards, Display, Track
- Definition of Done: Define, Publish, Maintain, Improve
- Definition of Ready: Define, Publish, Maintain, Improve
- Team Wall: Acquire, Setup, Maintain, Improve
- Limit Work In Progress: Promote Finishing Work, Lower Utilisation,
Setup Kanban Limit
- Sprint Burn Down Chart: Capture, Display, Interpret
- Analysis: Redefine, Train, Mentor, Improve
- Story Cards: Create, Display, Track, Maintain
- Backlog Refinement: Book meeting, Facilitate, Improve, Publish
- Story Narratives: Review, Improve
- Acceptance Criteria: Implement practice, Review, Improve (PO defines per story)
- Design: Redefine, Mentor, Improve
- Testing: Redefine, Automate, Improve, Track
- Defects: Create Cards, Track, Display
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