Scrum/Scrum_EN/library/Scrum/roles/ScrumMaster.xmi

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  <mainDescription>&lt;p&gt;
    During development, he's in charge of helping the team to work autonomously and constantly improve itself.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
    To achieve that, he performs the following tasks:&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        periodical tasks,&amp;nbsp;their objective is the application of Scrum by organizing and animating the &lt;a
        class=&quot;elementLink&quot; href=&quot;./../../Scrum/guidances/concepts/Travail collaboratif,_OUjj0AEZEduzRosbOajx7w.html&quot;
        guid=&quot;_OUjj0AEZEduzRosbOajx7w&quot;&gt;Collaborative Work&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(meetings)&amp;nbsp;:
        &lt;ul&gt;
            &lt;li&gt;
                Daily Scrum.
            &lt;/li&gt;
            &lt;li&gt;
                Sprint planning
            &lt;/li&gt;
            &lt;li&gt;
                Sprint review
            &lt;/li&gt;
            &lt;li&gt;
                Retrospective
            &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        Event tasks
        &lt;ul&gt;
            &lt;li&gt;
                eliminitating impediments&amp;nbsp;: taking into consideration events occuring at any time on a project in
                order to solve them as quickly as possible, while protecting the team from external distractions
            &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        background task
        &lt;ul&gt;
            &lt;li&gt;
                Make sure the team stays focused on the original project goal, which is to develop backlog items in close
                collaboration with the product owner, and stays productive.
            &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
    &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
    Analogies
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        The Scrum term comes from rugby. The half-scrum game position is the closest equivalent to the ScrumMaster role.
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        Ken Schwaber compares the ScrumMaster to a sheepdog.
    &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</mainDescription>
  <keyConsiderations>&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        He is not a project leader &amp;nbsp;: he does not lead, nor oblige, neither constrain.
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        He is part of the team: he shares responsability with the other team members.
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        He must reguraly physically meet the other team members.
    &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</keyConsiderations>
  <skills>&lt;p&gt;
    Expected Competencies and experience depend on size, and technical as well as management complexity. To play this role,
    a person should have the following competencies:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        good knowledge of Scrum,
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        good presentation, communication and negociation skills,
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        guiding without obliging,
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        showing good men leadership and knowing how to motivate a team,
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        being a problem and conflict solver,
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        honestly commucatiing on work progress,
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        respecting the essential objective: to release a product fulfilling its requirements.
    &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
    However, it is not necessary to:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        have experience in the application domain (not essential, but can help),
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;
        have technical development competencies.
    &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</skills>
  <assignmentApproaches>&lt;p&gt;
    for a typical Scrum team(6 to 10 persons) , a single person plays this role on a project.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
    The ScrumMaster can, eventually, participate to sprint tasks witht he other team members, but it needs to be limited.
&lt;/p&gt;</assignmentApproaches>
  <synonyms>&lt;p&gt;
    Process facilitator. The ScrumMaster is sometimes defined as an Agile variation of the project leader, but this doesn't
    help the understanding of the role.
&lt;/p&gt;</synonyms>
</org.eclipse.epf.uma:RoleDescription>