7 Dysfunctions of a Scrum Master
Chandan Lal Patary
🌟 Enterprise Business Transformation Coach 🌟 || 💥 Author of 9 Transformation Guidebooks || 💥Empowering Leaders & Innovators with Practical Insights for Success
A scrum master role, starting with these seven questions about the scrum master role:
As a scrum master,
- Is your scrum master competent to communicate with all stakeholders? Pursue, influence, convince all the stakeholders?
- Is your scrum master competent to bring in creative and innovative ways of dealing with numerous processes/Operations in product & solutions development?
- Is your scrum master competent to get along with all the team members inside and outside of the teams?
- Is your scrum master competent to build & Sustain the competent high-performance team traits?
- Is your scrum master competent to bring in and sustain new change initiatives?
- Is your scrum master competent to demonstrate servant leadership traits?
- Is your scrum master competent to function as a catalyst when called for?
If most of these answer is Yes, you are working with the awesome scrum master, if you have answered, No, any of these questions, you are likely to have some work to do.
7 dysfunctions
Dysfunction #1 : INEPT CATALYST
Dysfunction #2 : INEPT LEADERSHIP
Dysfunction #3 : INEPT CHANGE AGENT
Dysfunction #4 : INEPT TEAM PLAYER
Dysfunction #5 : UNFRIENDLY PERSONAL
Dysfunction #6 : INEPT INNOVATOR
Dysfunction #7: INEPT COMMUNICATOR
Look at any Job summary, you will be capable to discover, all the organization always searches for Scrum Masters who are performing all of these.
Once all these dysfunctions are worked out, you will be capable to perform all these Scrum Master jobs adequately.
Specific Responsibilities
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example, personify Scrum and Agile
- Ensure the team is exercising the appropriate level of planning to meet product goals and timelines while focusing on the delivery of value; organize and lead status and working sessions, prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; aid the team in correcting deviations from plans or pivots when needed.
- Promote empowerment of the team and assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, remove roadblocks to work; and mentor/coach team members. Ensure that each team member is fully engaged and making a meaningful contribution.
- Guide and coach on how to use Agile/Scrum practices & values.
- Guide and coach on how to get the most out of self-organization.
- Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work. Facilitate discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution, and all scrum ceremonies.
- Collaborate with the team in scheduling work, including defect remediation and refactoring, guarding against the accumulation of technical debt.
- Partner with the Technical Product Manager and Product Owner in managing expectations for outcomes, stakeholder communications, and working with the scrum team.
- Collaborate closely in the following areas: backlog grooming, enhancing team communication, improving team morale, ensuring cross-dependencies are known, clarifying the product vision, and facilitating events.
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile/Scrum frameworks. Ensure changes and strategies that are generated by scrum retrospectives are implemented.
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
- Ensures smooth delivery of planned work by protecting the team from outside influences/distractions / unplanned work.
In my Book, The Scrum Master Guidebook, I have proposed the 7C Chakra Model to become a better Scrum Master.
You may get many information in the landing page of The Scrum Master Guidebook