This document discusses the responsibilities and role of a full-time ScrumMaster. It outlines basic ScrumMaster responsibilities according to the Scrum Guide including promoting Scrum practices, helping others understand Scrum theory, and serving the Product Owner, Development Team, and Organization. The document also lists possible benefits of a full-time ScrumMaster such as focus, dealing with root causes, and happy teams and stakeholders. Challenges include issues with time and money. It emphasizes that a forgotten responsibility is service to the organization, which includes leading Scrum adoption, planning implementations, and causing change that increases productivity.

1. Full-Time Dedicated
ScrumMaster -
Benefits & Challenges
Arne Åhlander
www.aqqurite.se
August 9, 2018

2. Basic ScrumMaster
Responsibilities
According to
• Scrum Guide
• A ScrumMaster’s Checklist
• 42 Tasks for a ScrumMaster’s Job

3. • The Scrum Master is responsible for
• promoting and supporting Scrum as defined in the
Scrum Guide.
• Scrum Masters do this by
• helping everyone understand Scrum theory,
practices, rules, and values.
• The Scrum Master
• is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team.
• helps those outside the Scrum Team understand
which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are
helpful and which aren’t.
• helps everyone change these interactions to
maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.
• Service to the Product Owner
• Service to the Development Team
• Service to the Organization
Scrum Guide
http://www.scrumguides.org/

4. A ScrumMaster’s Checklist
• How Is My Product Owner Doing?
• How Is My Development Team Doing?
• How Are Our Engineering Practices Doing?
• How Is The Organization Doing?
http://scrummasterchecklist.org/

5. http://agiletrail.com/2011/11/14/42-tasks-for-a-scrum-masters-job/
42 Tasks for a ScrumMaster’s
job

6. Possible benefits of a
Full-Time ScrumMaster
• Focus
• Dealing with Root Causes
• Real Improvement
• Happy Team
• Happy Stakeholders
• Other?

7. • Time
• Money
• Lack of Focus
Challenges

8. Forgotten
Responsibility
of the
ScrumMaster?

9. Service to the
Organization

10. Service to the Organization
The Scrum Master serves the organization in several ways, including:
• Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption;
• Planning Scrum implementations within the organization;
• Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum
and empirical product development;
• Causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team;
and,
• Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of
the application of Scrum in the organization.

11. Q&A

12. Thank you!
arne.ahlander@aqqurite.se
@ArneAhl
www.aqqurite.se