Enhance and Correct Scrum Master article (#20986)

* Enhance and Correct Scrum Master article

Adjusted spelling and scrum guide link, add additional Scrum Master duties, and correct some misconceptions.

* Complete a sentence and change link destination
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Barbara Kryvko
2018-11-07 14:33:49 -06:00
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@ -13,20 +13,20 @@ The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The Scrum Master helps
- Helping the team maintain their burndown chart - Helping the team maintain their burndown chart
- Setting up retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions - Setting up retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions
- Shielding the team from interruptions during the sprint - Shielding the team from interruptions during the sprint
- Removing obstacles that affect the team - Making sure that obstacles that affect the team are removed, by doing it themselves or helping the team learn how to handle the obstacle
- Walking the product owner through more technical user stories - Assisting the product owner with understanding the practice of writing, splitting, and prioritizing user stories
- Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum team and product owner . - Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum team and product owner .
Typically a Scrummaster will ask the following qustions: Typically a Scrum Master will ask the following qustions:
1. What did you do yesterday? 1. What did you do yesterday?
2. What are you going to do today? 2. What are you going to do today?
3. Is there anything stopping your progress? 3. Is there anything slowing downn or stopping your progress?
Scrum masters are part of an Agile team. They can be developers or other functional members (wearing multiple hats) or functioning individually as a sole role in a team. Their main objective is to enhance the development using the Scrum framework. Scrum Masters are part of an Agile team. They can be developers or other functional members (wearing multiple hats) or functioning individually as a sole role in a team. Their main objective is to enhance the development using the Scrum framework.
Often their role is to: guide the sprint planning, monitor daily standup, conduct retrospectives, ensure velocity is present, help Scoping of Sprints. Often their role is to: guide the sprint planning, monitor daily standup, conduct retrospectives, ensure velocity is present, help scoping of Sprints, helping the Product Owner and team to construct and split user stories.
#### More Information: #### More Information:
- <a href="https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-a-scrum-master" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">What is a Scrum Master</a> - <a href="https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-a-scrum-master" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">What is a Scrum Master</a>
- <a href="https://www.scrum.org/resources/scrum-guide" rel="nofollow">Scrum Guide</a> - <a href="https://www.scrumguides.org/index.html" rel="nofollow">Scrum Guide</a>