An accomplished Chicago-based agile expert with vast experience training various corporate teams on how to maximize output and conform to various agile frameworks, Raven S. Cashaw is the owner of RAVVE Technology and RAVVE Medical Billing. Well-versed in scrum, Raven S. Cashaw coaches teams to help them create and innovate in a fast-paced software engineering market.
A scrum master is a key individual in an agile development team whose role is to ensure the team conforms to the values and principles of agile frameworks and follows the processes the entire team agreed to use. Scrum is a methodology that enables a team to organize themselves and quickly execute the required changes while adhering to agile practices. This entails managing a project by breaking it into several stages while maintaining constant collaboration with all stakeholders to ensure continuous improvement takes place.
Tasked with managing information exchange between team members, scrum masters also ensure that the goals of the product owner, scope, and product domain remain clear to the entire scrum team. Scrum is a simple, fast, and straightforward approach to manage large complex projects and deliver high-value products by dealing with problems as they arise. A scrum master seeks to find out from their team what they did yesterday, what they intend to do today and if there are any challenges they’re facing.
Scrum masters are not part of the hierarchy to demand results and accountability but rather, establish an environment that allows teams to work effectively. Scrum masters also clear any obstacles or challenges facing the project, address team dynamics, as well as protect the team from outside distractions and interruptions.
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