Scrum Master Skill Set

i was going through some article on Aglie Scout and found this very interesting skill set of Scrum Master which become very near to my heart so i plan to share with my readers 

 Top 10 Personal Skills for a Scrum Master:  

• Servant Leader – Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done

• Communicative and social – Must be able to communicate well with teams
• Facilitative – Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team
• Assertive – Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
• Situationally Aware – Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
• Enthusiastic – Must be high-energy
• Continual improvement - Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team
• Conflict resolution - Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
• Attitude of empowerment - Must be able to lead a team to self-organization
• Attitude of transparency – Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust

Technical Skills:

• Understand basic fundamentals of iterative development
• Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
• Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
• Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
• Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
• Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices

*The above technical skills are nice-to-have, but not necessarily required!