As Scrum Master, can you get involved in Decision Making?

As Agile coach, can you get involved in Decision Making?

In Agile, there are two roles and only two of them can make decisions. The first one is the Product Owner who is the primary decision maker. He/she decides everything about the product and is the sole decision maker in all the Scrum Team.


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Product Owner can decide and cancel a sprint, cancel a release or sometimes can cancel an entire product. Next is the Development team, while they don’t have the ultimate decision making like the Product Owner, they decide how to build the product. While they Product owner decides what goes in a product, he/she cannot tell the team on how to build the product.

Coming back, does Scrum Master get to make decisions? Yes, but not in terms of product or how to build it. The decision making for Scrum Master will be on the system within which the team is building the product. 

Scrum Master decides best process, policies for the team to perform well where they can fail & learn without getting punished.





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