#61 – The Scrum Master We Need

What characterizes an awesome Scrum Master? It’s not so much about having battle scars, but about meeting the team and organization where they are. Experience always helps, but it’s useless without a positive spirit, people skills, a growth mindset, natural curiosity, a ton of empathy, and sound knowledge of how to put the agile principles into practice in different contexts. In that sense, we should all aspire to become awesome Scrum Masters, no matter what our job titles are.

Also, let’s remember that the Scrum Master role is a senior role (i.e., accountability), but still, many organizations keep thinking of it as an entry-level job. It’s not. It’s about coaching, mentoring, facilitating, teaching, changing the organization and removing impediments. You just can’t do all of that straight out of university.