====== What Are the Responsibilities of a Scrum Master? ======

The main responsibilities of a Scrum Master are:

  * Process improvements
    * Ensures that the Team is fully functional and productive
    * Improve the lives of the Team by facilitating creativity and empowerment
    * Improve the productivity of the Team in any way possible
    * Improve the engineering practices and tools so that each increment of functionality is potentially shippable
  * Diplomacy
    * Enables close cooperation across all roles and functions and removes barriers
    * Remove the barriers between the Team and the Product Owner, so the Product Owner directly drives value production.
  * Coaching
    * Comprehensively understands the broader Lean-Agile frameworks
    * Continuously learning new tools and techniques aimed at helping the Team excel
  * Managing change
    * Control changes as they come in and guide various parties in working the change through the system to best effect
    * Shields the team from external interferences
  * Manages impediments and obstacles
  * Maintains working agreements such as
    * Definition of Done
    * Definition of Ready
    * Team Working Agreements
  * Encourage effective communication
    * Conflict facilitation
    * Teaching others to be more effective at communication
    * Ensures that part-time team members are kept informed
    * Facilitating Iteration activities
  * Ensures that the process is followed
    * Logistics and facilitation associated with Daily Stand-up, Iteration Review, Iteration Planning, Backlog Refinement, and Iteration Retrospective as well as other meetings and events
  * Updating artifacts
    * Ensures information about the Team’s progress up-to-date and visible to all parties
  * Change agent for the organization
    * Helps the organization move to the new way of thinking and operating

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