A perfect scrum master

Top 10 Personal Skills for a ScrumMaster:

1. Servant Leader – Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done
2. Communicative and social – Must be able to communicate well with teams
3. Facilitative – Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team
4. Assertive – Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
5. Situationally Aware – Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
6. Enthusiastic – Must be high-energy
7. Continual improvement - Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team
8. Conflict resolution - Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
9. Attitude of empowerment - Must be able to lead a team to self-organization
10. Attitude of transparency – Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust

Technical Skills:

1. Understand basic fundamentals of iterative development
2. Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
3. Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
4. Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
5. Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
6. Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
7. Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices

References

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