The Scrum Master Role Flashcards

Which statement best captures 'servant leadership' as applied to the Scrum Master?

Answer: Serving the team's needs while helping them achieve goals

Servant leadership means the Scrum Master focuses on the team's growth and needs so they can deliver value.

An impediment is blocking a Developer but is outside the team's control. The Scrum Master should:

Answer: Work to remove the impediment, escalating outside the team if needed

The Scrum Master causes the removal of impediments, escalating beyond the team when necessary.

How should a Scrum Master handle a team that wants to skip the Sprint Retrospective to deliver more?

Answer: Explain the value of inspection and adaptation and keep the event

The Retrospective is essential for continuous improvement, and the Scrum Master ensures it happens.

What is the best way for a Scrum Master to coach a team toward self-management?

Answer: Ask powerful questions and let the team find solutions

Coaching through questions builds the team's capacity to self-manage rather than depend on the Scrum Master.

A Scrum Master is asked by a manager for individual performance metrics on each Developer. The best response is to:

Answer: Explain Scrum emphasizes team accountability and redirect to team outcomes

Scrum focuses on the team as a unit, so the Scrum Master educates managers about team-based accountability.

Which is NOT an appropriate Scrum Master activity?

Answer: Assigning Sprint Backlog tasks to specific Developers

Developers self-manage and decide who works on what; the Scrum Master does not assign tasks.

The Scrum Master's effectiveness is best measured by:

Answer: The team's growing self-management and value delivery

A great Scrum Master makes themselves progressively less necessary as the team matures.