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The word SCRUM with symbols from project management
Ask people you know who are not involved in IT or engineering what a Scrum Master is. You will get some pretty entertaining answers. In my circle of friends, the tips ranged from He-Man villains to a type of biscuit. An acquaintance with a good command of English knew that Scrum means "squeezing" in German . He concluded that the Scrum Master might be the person who pushes people into the crowded subway in videos from Japan.

These kinds of answers are entertaining and the people who give them know that they don't know what a Scrum Master is. It gets more dangerous when you conduct this little experiment with people who know that Scrum is a method for agile working , but who haven't really internalized how different agile methods are compared to classic project management . The Scrum Master quickly becomes a kind of boss in the Scrum process, telling others how to "scrummage". It gets even more unpleasant when you work with Scrum and your Scrum Master believes that himself. Or when you are supposed to join a team as a Scrum Master and everyone else (including management) thinks you are now the boss or the project manager.

(Good) Scrum Masters are neither "bosses" nor "project managers." They don't try to fill crowded subways with people or chase He-Man out of Castle Grayskull. Sometimes they might have cookies with them.

OK, but what is a Scrum Master?
Before we really answer this question, we need to briefly explain what Scrum actually is. Scrum is a method for agile working that originated in software development. It is particularly well suited to developing complex solutions and products and is therefore used primarily in the areas of IT and engineering. With Scrum, self-organized teams develop products in small steps, and it is not always clear at the beginning what they should look like. Scrum works with flat hierarchies and incrementally and iteratively to work towards the end result. A detailed explanation of Scrum and agile working would go beyond the scope of this article, but this short summary should have shown that Scrum and classic project management are very different. For example: Scrum has no deadlines. Instead, there are so-called sprints, in which a previously agreed part of the end product is completed within a set period of time. Sprints are a kind of mini-project within the project and aim to produce finished, functional and often even marketable partial solutions.

If the topic is new to you, take a look at the German Wikipedia article on Scrum , which is actually quite good.
“what is a Scrum Master?” I still don’t know. What now? What are Scrum Master tasks?

Scrum Master is a role in the Scrum process. For the team, Scrum Masters are the contact person, mentor, coach, moderator, conflict consultant and sometimes even a kind of therapist. They also "defend" the team against external influences and ensure that they can work in peace during sprints. Scrum Masters do not work on the development of the product or solution themselves. Their job is to keep an eye on the entire Scrum process and ensure that everyone else can work as effectively as possible.

Let's say you want to develop a software product and have a budget for 5 employees. In this model germany telegram data you don't hire five developers, but four developers and a Scrum Master who ensures that the other 4 can implement the Scrum process optimally. That is the core task of the role. He (or she) removes obstacles, identifies optimization potential, trains team members, mediates between the product owner, stakeholders and team and generally ensures that the team can "scrummage" properly.

Hand pointing to Scrum and connected symbols
The problem with the role of the Scrum Master is that it all sounds a bit abstract. So here are some concrete examples:

The Daily Scrum. The Scrum method includes the Daily Scrum, a short 15-minute meeting in the morning in which we briefly talk about who is planning to do what today and whether there are any problems. Images like this illustrate the fundamental challenge with this concept:

The Daily Scrum is an essential part of the Scrum method and is really super helpful for the whole team. If it stays short. If it really only takes 15 minutes. If Mr. Maier and Mr. Schmitt don't discuss again whether or not Python can be taken seriously as a programming language. If it is not possible to use the Daily Scrum for a quick morning exchange of information in which potential problems are identified, it is up to the Scrum Master to a) recognize this, b) address it and c) find a solution. In stubborn cases, he could bring a hand horn to the meeting, for example. If the meeting drifts off topic, the horn is honked and it is clear that the topic does not belong in the Daily Scrum - even if it is perhaps important.
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