The Scrum Leader is accountable for establishing and maintaining Scrum, facilitating understanding of Scrum theory and practice, both within the Scrum Team and the organization. The Scrum Leader serves the Scrum Team (Team) by: Causing removals of impediments to the Team’s progress; Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox; Helping Teams focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done; Coaching Teams in self-management and cross-functionality. The Scrum Leader serves the Product Owner by: facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed; Providing techniques for effective product goal definition and backlog management; and Helping establish empirical product planning for complex environments. The Scrum Leader serves the Organization by: Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work; Removing barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams. Primary responsibilities include: Ensuring Scrum principles and practices are followed,
Scrum team events occur, are productive and kept within timeboxes. Removing impediments identified by Teams. Tracking and resolving team dependencies. Ensuring Teams’ effectiveness in using Scrum: responsible for enabling programs to meet their expected outcomes by supporting them in problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making. Facilitating and guiding Teams to deliver expected outcomes with high quality. Helping Teams focus on creating increments of value for each iteration and achieving daily and Iteration goals in the context of current program objectives. Using Data driven approaches to help Teams eliminate waste, improve productivity and improve team performance. Working with Portfolio and Product leaders to manage the program backlog and guide the program while facilitating a healthy team energetic with respect to priorities and scope. Ensuring quality of agile practices within