Scrum master has been a widely accepted designation nowadays in organizations.
Irrespective their domain knowledge, they are supposed to guide and facilitate the team, solve impediments and help team to provide deliverable on time.
However, I do not see a clear career path of a scrum master. Situation may vary from organization to organization. Can anybody explain? Saving Changes...
You have many roles to move ahead in your career path. All have given very good suggestions here.
The choice is yours & the organisation you fit in. SM role gives you an opportunity to make a paradigm shift on your leadership style and you could use it efficiently in your own ways to grow in your career. Saving Changes...
Well, I'm a Scrum master but Scrum Product Owner as well, and in my opinion, this role is very important in agile teams. I'm actually playing the role of Scrum Master but sometimes I switch from one project to another.
As a Scrum master I make sure the methodology is used, as well the team is really working as an agile team. The traditional project manager role is divided into two roles, and the reason is that we need a person committed with the team and the other with the customer. Product Owner is always busy with stakeholders gathering they requirements and asking details. As a Scrum Master, I'm always focused on the team and its performance.
The career path, in my opinion, is always to become an Agile coach, help teams to use properly the methodology, be a consultant for enterprises and projects. I have more to say but I guess this is enough to answer your principal question.
SM was originally a role and not a job title so anyone could play it if they had the necessary prerequisites to succeed. As a job title, different organizations would establish the requirements to enter the role.
From an SM position, someone could stay as an SM and gain more experience and competency, move into a PO role if they have the product knowledge and interest to do so, move into a coaching or agile lead role after gaining a lot of breadth and depth of experience, or revert to being a lead for a delivery discipline if they don't enjoy the SM role anymore - just a few of the many options!
Interesting point. And I agree that in a more traditional project manager role, the career path may be a bit more laid out. That said, the scrum master can increasingly be in a coaching role. Or possibly become an Agile Coach full-time as a consultant, taking their experience and helping other organizations.
Thanks Andrew. Saving Changes...
RAJESH K LProject Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, IndiaBengaluru, Karnataka, India
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