A good scrum team is first of all, a self-organizing team and an empowered team. What does this mean?

This means, the team:

• Takes responsibility to continue making progress in spite of all blockers
• Is fully accountable for the deliverables given to the customer
• Tries to make sure they divide the work among themselves in a fair manner and they take up new tasks once they finish their tasks
• Respects each other qualities and abilities and complement each other by picking up skills as PER their strong areas
• It is open while discussing issues and blockers and aims to solve problems rather than indulging in blame game or INTERNAL politics.

A scrum master enables this behavior by being a great coach and always following in what they themselves PREACH. Scrum values of Courage, focus, commitment, openness and respect become part of LIFE and actions at all times. Other ways, a scrum master can enable this in the team is by:

• Understanding team development process [bruce tuckman model]
• Connecting with team member on their MOTIVATION level [maslow’s heirarchy of needs]
• Enabling system thinking in the team
• Usage of information radiators
• Workshops
• And most importantly, leading by example.