Scrum framework : is Scrum Master a leader ?

Scrum Guide

• The Scrum Master is a leader (but a Servant leader) for the Scrum Team(s), the Organization, the Customer(s) and the Users.
  • Scrum Master as Servant Leader
    • As a Scrum Master, you are the true leader, accountable for your Scrum Team’s effectiveness.
    • As well described in the 2020 Scrum Guide, as a Servant Leader, you are accountable for serving your Scrum Team so they become a cohesive unit of responsible professionals, self-organized, focused, consistent and accountable for creating a valuable, useful Increment every Sprint.

Questions

• But what if you are unable to create this outcome?
• What are some places you can look and some adjustments you can explore?
• What barriers might be preventing the creation of self-managing Scrum Teams?
• And what experiments could you try to break through these barriers?

Best Practices and Patterns

• Let’s explore these items with practicing Scrum Masters :
  • Best Patterns
    • Lessons Learned from experience
    • Share the top barriers the Scrum Teams have typically faced on the path to self-management and some practices that have helped them break-through,
    • Share on wiki and Community of Practice (CoP),
    • Look at the Scrum.org Applying Professional Scrum training course and the Agile for SM learning path,
• Best Practices (BP)
  • Brake at least one concrete action to apply the Best Practices to launch or reboot a Scrum Team in your organization,
  • Inspect and Adapt,
  • Improve and make progress.

Versioning

• Created on 01/11, 2023
• Updated on 01/14, 2023
• Published on 01/14, 2023
• Updated : 01/16, 2023.