Duties of Scrum Master

• Facilitate his team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.

• Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology.

• Responsible to remove the impediments for the scrum team.

• Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.

• Helps product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.

• Responsible to Conduct retrospective meetings.

• Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting.

• Acts as safeguard for his team.

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks likeScrum, Kanban, XP, etc.

• Good skills to coach team how to follow agile scrum, which really works.

• Understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.

• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices.

• Knowledge of other Agile approaches, like:Kanban, Crystal, FDD, XP, etc.

• Knowledge about other methodologies other than Agile-Scrum, so that he can explain other methodologies to motivate his team.

• Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand his team needs.

• He should have knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.

• Ability to take and understand his commitment to deliver the product on time.

• Know about the value of metrics and incremental delivery.

• Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.

• Familiar with common development practices, Service oriented environments, and Agile practices.