Scrum Master Skills
This skill involves ensuring that the team adheres to Agile principles and practices.
What is coaching?
This ceremony occurs at the beginning of each sprint to define what will be done.
What is Sprint Planning?
This principal emphasizes the importance of delivering work frequently.
What is continuous delivery?
This tool is used to visualize the work and track progress.
What is a kanban board?
This artifact is a prioritized list of everything that might be needed in the product.
What is a product backlog?
This skill requires the Scrum Master to remove obstacles that prevent the team from achieving their goals.
What is impediment removal?
This daily meeting is time-boxed to 15 minutes and helps the team rally around what will take place that day.
What is the Daily Standup?
Agile teams welcome this, even late in development, as it is a competitive advantage.
What is change?
This is a common tool used by business agile teams to work in.
What is VersionOne or V1?
What is the Sprint Backlog?
The ability to listen actively and communicate effectively within the team and stakeholders.
What is communication?
This ceremony takes place throughout the sprint to ensure there are enough stories ready in the future.
What is Backlog Refinement?
This principal ensures that Agile processes promote sustainable development.
What is maintaining a constant pace?
This tool helps Scrum teams estimate the relative size of user stories.
What are planning poker cards?
This artifact is the sum of all Product Backlog items completed during a Sprint.
What is the Increment?
This skill involves running meetings or ceremonies and ensuring they are productive and focused.
What is facilitation?
This ceremony takes place at the end of the sprint and is when the team debriefs on the work that was accomplished and looks for feedback from stakeholers.
What is showcase?
This principle states that business people and developers must work together.
What is collaboration?
This tool measures the amount of work completed in a Sprint compared to the amount of work planned.
What is a burndown chart?
This document provides a detailed view of the requirements for a particular piece of work.
What is a user story?
The Scrum Master needs this skill to keep getting better and help the team review or enhance processes.
What is continuous improvement?
This ceremony allows the team to reflect on the past sprint and look for opportunities to improve.
This principle focuses on the importance of teams who come together to deliver an output.
What is a self-organized team?
This tool shows when a piece of work cannot be progressed or completed.
What is a blocker?
This artifact helps visualize the progress of work items throughout the Sprint.
What is a Task Board?