Scrum Master
Facilitate productive working environments through agile project management techniques.
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What's it like to be a Scrum Master?
Scrum Masters lead scrum teams, which are a key feature of the agile project management methodology commonly used in IT and business sectors. Scrum teams are designed to improve productivity, accountability and communication in the workplace. Scrum Masters play an important role in complex projects by managing communications between team members and departments, providing focus and clarity, and removing obstacles to ensure teams stay on track and achieve their objectives.
Tasks and duties
- Determining the goals and timelines for different projects.
- Allocating projects into sprints (short, time-boxed periods) and breaking down larger pieces of work into smaller tasks.
- Ensuring effective communication between team members by organising regular scrum meetings.
- Providing training and coaching.
- Helping to solve problems or conflicts within teams.
- Helping teams to ensure they meet their goals and targets.
- Carrying out maintenance and reporting.
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How to become a Scrum Master
While you don’t need any formal qualifications to become a Scrum Master, it is important to gain relevant work experience and a recognised certification. Many employers prefer candidates with a bachelor degree.
- Complete a relevant qualification such as a bachelor degree in business, IT or a related field.
- Gain relevant work experience. You may choose to initially work as a Business Analyst, Data Analyst or any role that coordinates projects.
- Complete certified training in agile delivery, such as the Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Scrum certification courses give you the skills to lead an effective agile team.
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I love working as a scrum master
Reviewer's Qualification
Master of Computing
Experience
5 – 9 years
Organisation size
Large (200+ employees)
Specialisation
Agile
The good things
Challenging, engaging, lot of learning, motivating, inspiring.
The challenges
Conflicts in team, Resistance towards agile or scrum, organisational culture
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Scrum master is a challenging role that I would love to do always
Experience
1 – 4 years
Organisation size
Large (200+ employees)
Specialisation
Digital
The good things
Great for identifying risks and working to solve for team. Learn managing time cost and team spirit
The challenges
Individual members issues, sudden change in company goals, identify loop holes in team management
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