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What is the Scrum Master Role during development team formation

Last post 04:59 pm April 8, 2015 by Nikhil Sinha
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Nikhil Sinha
01:31 pm April 3, 2015

Hi,

I've read through the scrum guide book couple of time and also on other sites, but I could not find what I was looking for.

For Example: If a company has 40 developers and they are planning to go agile - scrum. They are planning to create scrum team of 6 developers or so.
What is the role of scrum master here in team creation.
How does scrum master help the organization here who is planning to create a scrum team?

Regards,
Nikhil Sinha

tim muttitt
03:54 pm April 3, 2015

The Scrum Master can advise management & the developers what is required of each team (cross-functional, self-organizing, who have the necessary skills to produce an increment of value) and facilitate the team formation - whether that be self-organization by all the developers or being formulated by 'management'.

For example, if the organization was grouped by Front End Developers, Database administrators & back-end developers, then you would want to ensure each team has a mixture of all 3, so that you remove any outside dependencies.

Nikhil Sinha
04:59 pm April 8, 2015

Thanks Tim.

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