Scenario Based Scrum Master Interview Questions - iZenBridge 

Just wondering if there are any nice words left to praise you for your tremendous contributions to the Scrum community. You are truly one of a gem of all trainers for all Scrum Master aspirants ... kudos.... 👏👏👏👏 ..

My overall IT experience is 6 years. I have been working as middleware admin/Database admin/Oracle cloud admin all these years. During this course, I have realized my strengths and interests are NOT in this admin roles . I have never enjoyed doing it. My strengths, interests, clearly fall into people management, leadership roles, mentoring, collaboration, attending meetings, talking to clients, training, coaching junior resources, developing their soft skills, interpersonal communication skills, so on and so forth. After doing enough research I found Scrum master or Project manager or business analyst or becoming an agile coach matches my skills. So I have attended ITIL, PRINCE2 Agile, CSM, CSPO, SAFe scrum master workshops in a span of year and cleared respective certification exams. I have thoroughly enjoyed the workshop, preparations, reading these books, etc. I would like to see myself as a Scrum Master, Project manager or an Agile coach, or SAFe SPC. I want to make a career switch. 01. Is my thinking correct? 02. Am I heading in the direction? For someone who has no experience in development background, 03. will I be able to handle such roles?

I’m a fresh admirer of your videos. Thank you for taking the real interview questions and providing the most befitting answers. It’s been a great learning experience since the first video itself. Thank you for the great work.

Thanks Saket for helping so many professionals through your videos! Very helpful SM interview QnA.

2 points I like - Velocity cant be a target rather a means of reviewing performance. secondly having a meaningful definition for 'done' will always gives good velocity

Your clarity of thoughts and insights into motive behind questions is really awesome. Lately, I have been learning a lot from your videos and it has reignited my passion for Agile which I thought I lost due to boxed thinking n conformity to a pattern

thank you so much, this person and his willingness to give answers with full involvement is a great USP.

Thanks to both of you... Fruitful discussion

Great Explanation and its really helpful. Thank you so much Saket.

Thank you so much for taking time to share your knowledge to Scrum community!!!

Awesome 💯, your sessions are so close to the reality. All your conversations are making sense.👍

Excellent session...

Thank you so much for such an informative session.

Thankyou so much for sharing the videos. I really like the way you calmly explained all the things. Very effective for me thankyou once again.

great explanation, very knowledgeable.

Saket, you helped me so much to pass my PMP. Just wanted to express my gratitude and tell you that you are an amazing teacher.

Thank you so much. I am Scrum Master today.

Thank you so much..I have learnt lot of things from your videos🙏

Simply Wonderful.. very good insights about the real time challenges !

You are doing great sir, appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us.

Saket sir, your answers are very sincere and to the point, very good learning experience from you. Thanks so much for creating meaningful content in this space.

I have an Interview in an hour and watching this video definately makes me much more comfortable heading into the Interview. Thanks for the information and experience.

Dear Saket, Your videos are very much informative and engaging.. Appreciate all your contribution to the community

Too informative and practical answers!! Thank you so much saket!!

Thanks Saket ....your videos are senario based and practical. 👍

this is a gem! protect him at all costs

Great efforts Saket...No words for such a wonderful insight into Scrum and overall implementation.

Thanks a lot saket

Hey Saket , fortunately came across your channel and I don't have words to describe what I got from this video. Very impressive..It was direct connet with mind and was feeling this should be never ending conversation. Very impressive..thanks...any means to connet with you if need any help in future?? Thanks in advance..

Hi Saket, I have been following you for quite a long time and I have learnt a lot from your videos. I work as a Technical Project Manager, in many ways, as Scrum Master as well. I have a team of developers with experience ranging from 3 to 7 years. Problem in the team is that they are not ready to help each other in tricky situations. When they do, then they make a scene out it that the other person doesn't know anything and they try to reflect in front of management, so that they can be upwards in the game. Definitely, there are perks in my organisation for those perform well. But I feel this is not a good way to go up the ladder, by bringing someone down. In multiple, 1:1 sessions with each developer, I have tried to make them aware that, team effort is required to bring them and the team in good light and to gather the perks as well. I have continuously been appreciating each of them about their good doings and how they can work on their shortcomings. Whenever required, pair programming and mentorship with Engineering Lead has been provided. Still this situation doesn't seem to improve. What would you suggest to me, that I as an SCM or TPM can do here? Thanks, Anurag Gupta

wonderful contents.... Great learning. Your thoughts are grounded and well articulated. I am going to be regular on your videos from now on...

Thanks saket. its clear my view for some question

Very informative and Practical answers Really helpful .Thanks you

@Saket bansal - Wow, absolutely amazing answers. Hays off to you.

I really liked various scenarios discussed here. Mainly empathizing with all stakeholders for why that step is taken. And many relevant practical problems were discussed. Really informative. Thank you.

Thanks a lot Saket Sir for such a wonderful and very important session. Keep it up

You are my guardian angel Saket sir,was able to crack multiple interviews due to such amazing insights shared through these videos.Would love to get in touch regarding future SAFe/Agile certifications

Very well explained....🙏🙏

For question where one of the team member took an emergency leave, thats a risk that should have been analyzed before had, so i would take up to product manager and discuss the risk response that could have been documented.

Thanks saket, it helps us to understand the scenario base questions and answers.

it is all so good...very informative and your conversation has the fear of an interview

This is a nice presentation. Thank you

excellent conversation almost close to my thoughts on Scrum

Brilliant!

Really nice I was able to connect to all shared scenarios.. really appreciated..

Awesome

Awesome discussion 🎉🎉very helpful Saket

@26:56 similar question asked 4 years ago when I had attended an Interview in Ivy Comptech. Ofcourse, I couldn't answer better.

Always very practical ways of answering Saket.. Kudos

Yes no matter how great PM or agile expert u r but without understanding the situation and analysis it will be difficult to come to conclusion.

Wonderful

Great session!!!!

Very nice answers. Hope these will help many individuals in their career.

Great video Sir

had a great learning

very good answer good way to keep it.

awosome!

Good job Mr. saket.

One thing u cleared that or mention that scrum master can't b rigid. If it happens then friction will b der .Any company would like to c teams working very smoothly. With collaboration team can achieve the goal.

Nice and very helpful

Pretty cool SM Q&A experiences ...but sounds like a more PM questions.

You are taking lot of time, you can come straight to the point

Very nice content sir. One question I have, Which is best in below two ways a) all team members having good knowledge in all areas of the product backlog b) individuals having expert knowledge in only one area and not working on any other area

Sir, could you please tell the difference between SAFe scrum master certification and safe advanced scrum master certification, how do they differ concepts wise, and roles and responsibilities aspects....pls help...

Good discussion

Hello, my colleague advised me watch your videos. It was a great learning. Thanks ! I have taken few Scrum trainings and now preparing for certification. However, I am not getting from where to start watching your videos. Could you please suggest from where to start ?

I would love to give 1000 likes but sorry Saket I could only manage to give 1 like to this fantabulous video. Please continue making such inspiring and realtime scenario based interview questions and we are anxious to find reply from an experienced person in the industry 👍

Nice session Saket

Wonderful, wonderful conversation from you both. I am about to start interviewing for scrum roles and you all just blew my mind with this discussion. Thank you so much

Very Informative Q&A.If one needs to approach for some guidance or discussion around the same Scrum Master or Agile Coach space,how to do that ?

One guy can do work for 2 hours, another - for 8 hours. There are many situations when developers can't estimate tasks accurately

@izenbridge On estimating using story points do we need to increase SP if we have external dependency,though this is external and has nothing that do with Scrum team

Hello Saket, Your videos are really really helpful but there is one feedback that I want to give that every time I go for an interview I have to play the video and then revise which is little time consume while I am in rush to go through these interviews. Can you please provide these in written document even. These are such wonderful interactions that anyone will pay for it and I will be the first buyer :)

Hi Saket, I’m following you from while and videos are providing very good knowledge, thanks for that and I’ve came up one interview question hope you will help me to get a better answer. Question “Interviewer gave me a supply chain gift shop inventory where can make more profits. How do you collaborate with the PO to negotiate time which should be delivered in 2 weeks but the team thinks it will take 6 months ?

Looking some advanced scrum master

Good explanations, Is product owner is responsible to report to Scrum master on his daily updates.

These are really helpful, there was a question that if I have to start a scrum team from the scratch. What are the factors that I need to consider

What should be my approach as a Scrum Master, if there is a new story needs to be added in the current sprint. (1 - at Mid of the Sprint, 2 - Near the end of the Sprint

Hi Saket, I am following your videos closely for upcoming interviews. I have come across a question - Role of Scrum Master during PI planning, would request you to share a small video based on your understanding and Knowledge. Thanks Neha

SM if start to force to increase the velocity then again it becomes traditional PM ...it all based on the team on how much they can deliver...

could you please answer this in relation with first question? -what if we continue to get requests during the sprint that the client asks to be done immediately? i believe this is also one of the question we SM's are asked oftenly

Hello saket, I have one question which is being asked in my recent scrum master interview is why we need a scrum master when a project manager or lead can do the same stuffs like coaching, felicitating about the project and the goals I hope this reaches you and you could help me out with the expected answers? thanks in advance looking forward for your support

Hello, I am new in this field. I really appreciate Your interview videos. I am Looking For BA interviews too. Any Recommendation. I need help with the interview preparation.

Hello, I have an experience in sales and marketing and want to switch my career in Scrum master. I don't have any it related knowledge so far and i m planning to do certification in scrum master. So should I go ahead or only it experience can go for scrum master?

Great job how can we participate in such session

Sir, is this Agile Testing... Scrum master interview questions?

Hello Sir Thanks for the wonderful details and for this video... based on this video and your other videos I have something to conclude is that even I give the correct answer in the interviews based on scrum guide's guidelines still companies not giving me the chance to work as Scrum Master. I belong from QA Domain/experience and was leading QA team and later on given responsibilities of SM too and so I did my PSM 1 certification in 2020. But now when I give interview rejection is not based on skills, they usually rejects saying that I do not have experience as Scrum Master. Bad interviewers are my misfortune or what !? What to do in this situation ? Being QA person, I will say it is "cherry on the top", (because I believe ultimately scrum tells the problems in the process, it will not solve your problems. ) if scrum master belongs to QA background and has technical knowledge but few companies not considering it at all. I do not want to leverage the PSM 2 certification until I get the Scrum Master role.

Wao amazing 👏 vedio on scrum interview, thanks!! I have some questions can you work with me on those?

Good day folks, I ran into a few questions during my interview span. Here, I'm listing them out. 1. Agile Manifesto 2. Principles and values of Agile 3. Principles and values of Kanban 4. Why should a sprint run for 2 weeks and not for 1 or 3 weeks? 5. DOR and DOD, which one should be meet the acceptance as an individual and as a whole? 6. When to choose Scrum and Kanban? 7. If a customer is least interested in your product, how'd you overcome it, as a scrum master? 8. Explain story pointing in simple terms 9. What if a PO decides to pull out a few user stories at the end of the Sprint and planned to involve a few new stories, which are pushed by the business? 10. What if the team isn't ready to accept Agile/Scrum? 11. How do you do capacity planning in a qualitative and quantitative way? 12. If a team is well organised and you don't see any blockers. During the sprint planning, the entire team has agreed to deliver the user stories on time. How do you ensure the team delivers the user stories on time? 12. How do you help your PO in backlog refinement? 13. What are the changes you have observed as a team, after the transition of Agile from Waterfall? Please do go through the entire Agile Manifesto, as some (only a few) start with text book questions.

Hi Saket, I’ve never been a scrum master, though I have the worked in Scrum as a Developer and have a CSM certification. I’m starting a new role as a Scrum Master. What basic things do I need to do in my first few weeks to be successful? Appreciate your help.

@iZenBridge Consultancy Pvt Ltd Team is facing difficult technical challenge and there is high level of uncertainty as how to solve it. in result there are some performance issue, so how you as a scrum master would facilitate it

Hi, just came across ur video, just passed my PSM1 exam was wondering if u can be my mentor

Could you please tell me what you will do in a situation where there are two different teams with need to work hand in hand to deliver the product but due to conflict between teams they don't deliver in time. How will a scrum master handle such situations as you are not technical enough to judge both the team.

Hi sir, I just want to say you're doing well. PLease how can one support this platform to grow, I really need to throw in my own financial support no matter how small it might be,,,smiles

Really a nice video.. though I have some more questions : Q1: Which quick decisions you have done in your team as a Scrum master Q2: How do you prioritize your work as a SM ? Q3: Best things you have done in your project that have helpe the team?

Hello, Can you help me prepare for my interview one on one?

Any idea how a role based scrum master interview would be like? appreciate if some one can throw light on that

Can you please tell me that these interview questions are from which organization ?

Hi, I have one question... QA team doing testing and Dev team doing testing. How QA team can find ... Dev team doing testing correctly ?

is it that Scrum Master is only from Client side? Suppose you work for a vendor company, can they have scrum master roles?