Mike Cohn has been a Scrum Master for over 20 years. Over that time, he gave and collected quite a lot of advice and distilled it down to the ten best bits for you:
- Never Commit the Team to Anything Without Consulting Them First
- Remember You’re There to Help The Team Look Good
- Don’t Beat the Team over the Head with an Agile Rule Book
- Nothing Is Permanent So Experiment with Your Process
- Ensure Team Members and Stakeholders View Each Other as Peers
- Protect the Team, Including in More Ways than You May Think
- Banish Failure from Your Vocabulary
- Praise Often But Always Sincerely
- Encourage the Team to Take Over Your Job
- Shut Up and Listen
Read the complete article here: https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/ten-sentences-with-all-the-scrum-master-advice-youll-ever-need