Scrum Masters on the county elections systems ART believe their only duty is running a timer at daily standup. What should the RTE coach them to do instead?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
A standup timer is a kitchen gadget, not a job description. Scrum Masters and Team Coaches help the elections team improve, clear blockers, and work with the RTE when the problem is bigger than one team. The clock is the smallest part.
Full Explanation
Scrum Masters and Team Coaches coach the team, remove impediments, and partner with the RTE on ART-level flow—not merely time the standup. On a county elections systems ART, reducing the role to a timer starves team improvement and ART partnership before election deadlines. Estimating all election stories so developers can skip planning is not their job and undermines team ownership of estimates. Prioritizing the Program Backlog when Product Management is busy usurps content authority that must stay clear for CAD-adjacent elections work. Assigning business value to PI Objectives in place of Business Owners usurps sponsorship authority. Exam caveat: Scrum Masters facilitate team events, but facilitation is in service of coaching and flow, not stopwatch duty alone. Operational check: Review Scrum Master outcomes on the elections ART—impediments cleared, team improvements, Coach Sync participation—and coach any timer-only behavior back to the full role. In municipal settings, pressure to look busy, compliant, or politically safe is constant; the RTE earns trust by holding the principle through that pressure and verifying the next cadence event shows improved civic delivery, not just a quieter meeting. Capture the before/after signal so sponsors see the operational evidence.