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Can a person without technical knowledge become scrum master for development team

Last post 04:33 pm August 3, 2017 by Everard Onggon

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prabhakar26@gmail.com d

10:39 am July 31, 2017

Timothy Baffa

04:37 pm July 31, 2017

What criteria do you believe are needed for someone to become a Scrum Master?

Everard Onggon

07:20 am August 3, 2017

I think technical knowledge is a plus, but it is not required.

Scrum Master is a management position, which manages the Scrum process, rather than the Scrum Team. As long as the Scrum Master has a solid knowledge and understanding about Scrum Framework, he can be a Scrum Master.

Besides, a Scrum Development team should be cross-functional; being capable of doing the A to Z of the creation of each Product Backlog. So they should not be dependent with the Scrum Master when it comes to technicalities on how to make the Product Backlog into a working increment.

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