Understand the team dynamics and seek to guide them into productive ways of working, promoting whole-team thinking.
The scrum master is accountable for ensuring that the process is effective and is always improving. Helping the development team to agree on their shared quality standards in the form of a definition of done.Helping the product owner to establish a product backlog.Organising the schedule and materials required for sprint planning, the daily scrum, the sprint review and the sprint retrospective.Teaching the scrum team about the agile principles and the Scrum framework.The first task for a scrum master is to establish the scrum process, which would typically involve: The primary accountability of the scrum master is to provide delivery leadership, experience and expertise by managing the scrum process, improving their organisation’s ability to deliver a valuable, relevant product.
The scrum framework defines three roles and gives clear accountabilities to each, in order to simplify decision-making and ensure that things get done.