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The Scrum Master is accountable for establishing Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide. They do this by helping everyone understand Scrum theory and practice, both within the Scrum Team and the organization.

The Scrum Master is accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness. They do this by enabling the Scrum Team to improve its practices, within the Scrum framework. Scrum Masters are true leaders who serve the Scrum Team and the larger organization.

Scrum Master service to the Scrum Team

• Coaching the team members in self-management and cross-functionality

• Helping the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done

• Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress

• Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox

The Scrum Master service to the Product Owner

• Helping find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management

• Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items

• Helping establish empirical product planning for a complex environment

• Facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed

The Scrum Master service to the organization

• Leading, training, and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption

• Planning and advising Scrum implementations within the organization

• Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work

• Removing barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams

The Delivery Team consists of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable Increment of “Done” product at the end of each Sprint. The Development Teams are structured and empowered by the organization to organize and manage their own work.

The specific skills needed by the Developers are often broad and will vary with the domain of work. Developers are always accountable for:

• Creating a plan for the Sprint, the Sprint Backlog

• Instilling quality by adhering to a Definition of Done

• Adapting their plan each day toward the Sprint Goal

• Holding each other accountable as professionals

• Direction of corporate strategy

• Growth of individuals and team

• Project Level Performance and Quality Reporting

• Staffing and Resource Onboarding

• Performance reviews and career development

• Establish engineering standards and best practices

• Provide necessary tools, processes and policies

• Define engineering and quality standards/strategy

• Owner of organizational level obstacles

• Design a lean organization/team structure

• Develop leaders who lead teams

• Lead the organization through change

• Address organizational issues that get in the way of team(s).

• Be more strategic, less tactical

• Customer and market research by analyzing the industry and competition

• Identifies customer needs and voice of the customer

• Drives Pl objectives and release content via prioritized features and enablers

• Maximize value, revenues and return on investment

• Owner of the product vision, program backlog, product strategy and roadmap

• Ensuring requirements that impact other projects (internal and external) are submitted to the other products’ requirements lists or backlogs

• Release planning, execution and product launch

• Product sustaining and retirement

• Business case development and realization

• Responsible for value delivery through business ecosystem

• Establishes feature acceptance criteria

• Responsible for feature, schedule and cost trade offs

• Brings products to market

• Validating with Product Owner that the release is operating as expected

• Support Product Owner with priorities and requirements

• Project budget management and forecasting

• Facilitate Release Readiness & Deployment Management

• Project budget management and timesheets

• Project Level Performance and Status Reporting

• Staffing and Resource Management 

• External Risk & Dependency Management

• Escalate and/or remove external team impediments

• Participate in refinement and sprint grooming sessions

• Take notes during requirements gathering sessions

• Highlight requirements, risks, gaps, dependencies 

• Identify requirements with stakeholders/business owners

• Capture and link any technical dependencies 

• Help product owner in creating user stories

• Support Product Owner with priorities and requirements

• Expert of a product or technical processes

• Solution Architect support

• Provides support to the team as needed

• Assists the PO/BA in writing technical stories

• Helps identify dependencies or technical constraints

• Attends Product Refinement sessions as needed

• Enterprise Release Management

• Corporate Security

• Infrastructure/Architecture/Network

• Operations and Support

• Apply lead change management activities

• Support communication efforts

• Assess/ complete change management assessments

• Support training efforts

• Identify and manage anticipated resistance

• Manage the change portfolio

• Integrate change management activities into project plan

• Create deliverables for the change management levers: 

  • 1. communications plan

  • 2. sponsor roadmap

  • 3. coaching plan

  • 4. training plan 

  • 5. resistance management plan