What is a Scrum Master's role?
Answer
The Scrum Master is a servant-leader who helps the Scrum Team and the organization understand and enact Scrum. Their responsibilities: Serving the Scrum Team: coaching Developers in self-management and cross-functionality, helping focus on creating high-value Increments, removing impediments, ensuring productive Scrum events. Serving the Product Owner: helping define the Product Goal and manage the Product Backlog effectively, facilitating stakeholder collaboration. Serving the organization: leading and coaching Agile adoption, planning and advising Scrum implementations, helping employees and stakeholders understand empirical product development. The Scrum Master is NOT a project manager, doesn't assign tasks, doesn't make product decisions, and doesn't boss the team. They are a coach, facilitator, and impediment remover. Their influence comes from expertise and service, not authority.