What is a Scrum Master?

Scrum Master, in simple words, is a role within the Scrum Framework. Scrum framework is an agile approach to build product incrementally and iteratively. Scrum is the most popular framework on the name of agile. Many people get confused between agile and scrum. Scrum is the most popular way to be agile but again, it is not the only way to be agile. The popularity of scrum reflects on its role as well.

There are 3 roles in Scrum which have their own responsibility and accountability.
Scrum Master
Product Owner
Development Team

Scrum Master: This is the most popular role in Scrum so far by looking at the number of training that is conducted every month. Scrum Master has to take care of the scrum processes and help the scrum team to do their job without outside hindrance. The scrum master helps others to do their job by facilitating team decisions and scrum events. They Coach everyone on scrum processes, agile values and principles, removing impediments that hinder in-team performance and much more. You can learn deeper about Scrum Master jobs in Scrum Master and Advance Scrum Master training. It is popular for reasons such as it was the first training launched by certification bodies, traditional project managers took up this role in beginning to move towards agile-based delivery. Also, many considered this as natural career progression within quality management, change management and release management organizations etc.

To view the full blog and this blog "How to Become Certified Scrum Master" is originally published on Agilemania website. Becoming a good scrum master requires continuous learning and that usually starts with learning scrum processes. Learning scrum processes begins with attending scrum master training and the journey continues.