Monday, February 11, 2008

Being a ScrumMaster is Hard



As a Certified ScrumMaster, I need to do many things to help my team. Not only do these things include practices but principles as well.

Practices of a ScrumMaster
  • Ensures that the team follows the rules of Scrum
  • Removes obstacles that stop the team from delivering value
  • Facilitates the meetings in Scrum
Principles that are important for a ScrumMaster
  • The Agile Manifesto, which states
    • individual and interactions over processes and tool
    • working software over comprehensive documentation
    • customer collaboration over contract negotiation
    • responding to change over following a plan
  • Inspect & Adapt
  • Stages of a Team
    • forming
    • storming
    • norming
    • performing
With all of this in mind and much more to consider, I can see why a ScrumMaster is a full time job!