At Scrum Day MN 2017 I delivered a talk entitled “Scrum Masters: Why I Did Not Hire You.” As a visual for my slide deck, I created a word cloud by pulling the introductory paragraphs from twenty resumes I had recently reviewed. Interestingly, the largest words in the word cloud included “project”,” projects”, “Project (capital “P”)”, and “management”. Included, but much smaller, were the words “agile”, “scrum”, and “Product”.
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Topic 2: The Screening Interview
As a hiring manager actively looking for Scrum Masters, I’ve read a lot of resumes and have said “No” to the majority of them. Are you guilty of committing any of the Scrum Master candidate mistakes that I see all the time? In this series of blogs, I’ll discuss my personal Do’s and Don’ts list, as well as address questions I’ve received from the Scrum Day MN 2017 audience that attended my talk on this subject. I’d love to hear from you and continue the conversation in the comments section below.
Scrum focuses on doing work differently. When we are doing the work differently we need to think in terms of job security not role security. We need to let go of old roles and old ways of doing work to make room for the new roles and the new way of doing work. This can be difficult. However, if we look to the Scrum Framework we can identify the roles in Scrum and where individuals may fit.
