- Facilitate daily standups, Sprint reviews, Retrospectives and Iteration/sprint planning meetings
- Guide the team from over-committing and scope creep
- Aid in estimation and sub task creation
- Work as the administrator of the scrum board
- Ensure that cards are up to date and the scrum tools like Jira are working well
- Meet individually with team members and stakeholders as needed
- Iron out team disagreements about process and work styles
- Many scrum practitioners oppose 1on1, believing these communications should happen during standups
- However, new teams often prefer to have these regular face-to-face interactions with specific team members
- The scrum master may decide that these individual interactions are crucial for team development and getting to know one another
- Guide the team by eliminating external blockers and managing internal roadblocks through process or workflow improvements
- Influence stakeholders to support business projects
- Validate existing business processes and recommend improvements
- Lead requirements gathering sessions and document the resulting requirements
- Work with functional users to identify, prioritize and document requirements
- Support requirements prioritization and backlog grooming sessions
- Assist in customer/user meeting preparation, process planning and scheduling
- Interact with customers to provide and process guidance in response to process reviews, inquiries, concerns, and requests
- Assist in developing and presenting routine and ad hoc project management reports
- Assist with the planning and management of document templates
- Assist with the development of meetings agendas and the subsequent capture and distribution of meeting minutes and action items
- Ensure all team guidance, work products, and related documents are updated and posted to a common document repository
Identify and assess process and operational inefficiencies, identify gaps, and develop recommendations on business process improvements and support the implementation and monitoring activities associated with these initiatives
