Responsibilities of Scrum Master

1. Team Coaching

Scrum Master mentors the development team and product owner so that they can easily understand the Agile process thereby contributing effectively in their role and dedication to the project. Scrum master ensures the team performance improvement and productivity.

2. Project Tracking

Scrum Master tracks the project at regular intervals and shares the updates with the product stakeholders. He ensures that the deadlines are met and the desired outcome is achieved.

3. Encourage Agile Engineering Practices

With the help of integration tools and automation, chunks of code are deposited in a central repository that builds and runs the test in the iterations. Such a task reduces time, effort, and risk that would otherwise be seen as in traditional development methods. Iteration fixes the bug in the next build whereas the use of pair programming encourages developers to collaborate at the same time and workstation. Thus, the overall time and architecture as was as product quality is improved

4. Standups

The fundamental task of a scrum master is to host daily standups and sprint planning meetings and take the reviews. The discussion about the project planning, daily accomplishments, and the obstacles take place in the brief meetings. The Scrum master makes sure that remote staff of the team participate in the meetings.

5. Blockers

Scrum master eliminates external blocker and internal roadblocks by assessing the workflow.

6. Maintain the Product Backlog

Product backlog contains the list of task that is to be accomplished by the team. Product owner creates, maintains and updates the backlog depending on the current status and needs. Scrum master refines the backlog based on standup meetings and review meetings.

7. Remove Roadblocks

Scrum master removes the distraction or roadblocks for the team to stay focused ensuring progress. Unnecessary team meetings and non-essential workload can be assessed and distributed to enhance the efficiency.

8. Project Management

Scrum master creates ,onboards and integrates the project teams and provides the product know how They serve as intermediator between the project team and external groups. They can provide feedback and monitor the progress of any given project.

Scrum is a widely used framework for agile development. It allows teams to work together efficiently to come up with their common goals. The key drivers of this empirical process include observation and experimentation. A Scrum Team has cross-functional people who work cohesively to reach out common objective. The Product Goal Scrum Team comprises the following roles, Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Developers.