The Scrum Master As A Teacher
As a teacher, the Scrum Master explains the Scrum framework and how it helps to be effective in complex
environments. The Scrum Master teaches and explains the purpose of the Scrum framework as a means to work empirically. Scrum Masters help the team, stakeholders, and supporting organization understand how the artifacts,events, accountabilities, and principles promote empiricism and agility. They guide the team back to Agile practices and principles when they stray. The Scrum Master approaches teaching as “directed discovery” rather than “presenting the facts”. This makes learning about Scrum an exciting exploration, with the Scrum Master as a guide.
Although it’s important to teach your Scrum team and stakeholders about the mechanics of Scrum (accountabilities,artifacts, events), it’s even more important to teach the purpose of Scrum. What are the underlying principles and values? How does Scrum help you navigate complexity? How is Scrum a framework to manage risk and deliver value
sooner? Whenever you teach Scrum, try doing so without using any Scrum terminology at all. Your answer should never be “because the Scrum Guide says so…”. Instead, teach people the purpose of Scrum and what it makes possible.