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A Scrum master is a servant leader. Servant leaders are focused on supporting their teams, rather than directing them. They educate and support team members in maintaining alignment with Agile practices.

A Scrum master engages in these activities and behaviors:

 Leadership: Practices servant leadership. Motivates the team. Provides coaching and mentoring to team members as needed.

 Scope: Works with the product owner to communicate the priorities in the project backlog.

 Schedule: Facilitates sprint planning, demonstrations, and daily stand-up (or scrum) meetings.

 Resources: Protects the team from outside interference. Removes barriers or impediments so team members can accomplish work.

 Process: Helps the team and other stakeholders understand and follow agile processes. Works with the team to improve team dynamics and the processes used to create and deliver value.

 Risk: Reduces uncertainty by experimenting with different solutions, building prototypes, and providing demonstrations to relevant stakeholders throughout the project.

A product owner determines the vision and scope for the project, makes decisions about the product, and establishes priorities. Where necessary, they interact with external stakeholders to understand needs and then communicate those needs to the team.

You can see that project managers and Scrum masters both use their skills and knowledge to accomplish the project work. The approach is different with the project manager providing more direct oversight and accountability for the outcomes, whereas the Scrum master operates as a supportive role for team members, empowering and enabling them to accomplish the work.

In a hybrid project you may see a project manager for the overall project with a Scrum master working on software development aspects of the project. You might also see the project manager adapting more of the servant leadership behaviors while still maintaining overall accountability for the project. Ultimately, the best approach is one that works in your environment.

Regardless of the approach, having software to help organize and structure the work makes managing the project and leading the team less daunting. That’s where Project can help.