Scrum Master and Agile scrum project management are two words that go together and almost make one feel as they are synonymous. Nevertheless, practicing agile without a scrum master is unheard of and would just delay in reaping the benefits of the methodology.
And this why Scrum Master is a crucial role in the agile project management scheme of things.
At a very high level, Scrum Masters are considered as:
Leaders – have the skills to motivate and lead the team practice agile successfully.
Experienced – have thorough knowledge of the agile principles and stay true to them throughout the course of the project.
Coach/Mentor – have the role of coaching and guiding the teams through agile adoption.
Organizers – as the crucial responsibility of ensuring coordination, communication and collaboration within and between teams, product owner and business stakeholders lies on them.
Now this gives us a good glimpse of the various hats that a Scrum Master has to wear to enable his teams implement agile project management successfully.
Let us take a quick look at the Scrum Master role to then understand what they do, how and why.
