I got fired of a 10 years job in the Aviation last year because of the consequences of The Covid19. I am decided to change career and get into the Agile field. I have no experience to get a Job as a Scrum Master but you opened my mind. I can get the necessary experience to get my first Scrum Master Job by applying Agile principles on my own life. By becoming an Agile Man and understanding its principles on a daily bases, I believe I will get an opportunity in the near Future. Thanks for your mentoring.
Thank you Jem! Loved our class this past weekend - you are a very inspiring and gifted teacher. I look forward to following you here on RU-vid and on your website. I take my exam next weekend and am starting a blog this week. Exciting stuff!
Kumar here Jem ..... you make huge difference .... it is a Scrum Lesson we get , extra information that motivates us to make us better in life and job .... keep up the good work.. see you in uk if i have a chance...
I have 5 yrs IT experience as a developer ans data analyst and have done CSM certification but not getting any calls for interview. I am in toronto Canada. Any suugestions?
Hi. Sorry, long question. I've recently landed a role as a non-tech Project Manager. I have a strong mix of niche domain knowledge and a business analyst skillet that more often than not morphs more into product ownership. I'm often labelled as 'too nice' or even worse, not taking ownership even though I'm not the point of failure. I'm very mindful of feedback that I need to be 'like a dog with a bone'. I want to work on this and be an individual who drives project delivery to completion but I'm not sure I have the right toolkit. I'm working to define the mvp and road map, the epics, costed stories and meeting regularly with my team; providing full visibility - thus accountability - of those stories and project plans at the meetings. I'm arranging plentiful demos and reviewing my backlog and getting status updates. What more can I do to be someone who is a (positive) driving force and deliverer of results? How do I go from 'being soft' to being a delivery machine without compromising empathy and relationships?
In as much as this information is good to get used to agile practices, truth is Scrum isn’t an entry level role and it will be extremely rare to see a scrum role with less than 3yrs needed. An average hands on experience I have mostly seen required in 5yrs and above. It’s a highly competitive role now and some companies are evening combining the roles with candidates with backend skills.
When you say “the truth is” you’re really saying “in my experience” and I hear you. My experience of being around this industry for almost 20 years is that you have to start somewhere. A person on a team can use SM skills and then turn it into a role or simply keep it as skill as a team member. I agree, the market is more competitive because of a few reasons one being less jobs and less demand - but everything happens in cycles for all markets. In terms of combing it with writing code, there is nothing about Scrum which suggests that you need to be a software developer to be competent in the job.
@@theagilerooms I do agree with your point but my perspective is for someone not in I.T nor having one foot in the door already as a developer. Referring to someone just trying to transition to the SM role from an outside role let’s say a Teacher or Nurse aide. It much easier for a Dev to transition to the role because the person has first hand experience on what is been done compared to the one mentioned above.
Like and Subscribe! Jem, thanks for being full of good information and metaphors that take concepts into usable knowledge. Your perspectives will not only be good for work but also useful when working on my wife's project backlog "honey do list".
