Scrum Master Interview Experience with Questions and Answers 

Saket you're an angel. Great video! Text books and theory is for the birds when reality hits, it's a whole different ball game. There's nothing like environmental context...

Thanks Saket for giving so detail real time examples, scenarios and your videos covers every Scrum interview questions and answers. Loads of thank for all the help you are providing through your channel!

I am so grateful being landed here.. The way you are explaining is very much neutral and with deep understanding. I find it awesome it is working magically in all my interviews.. Thankyou so much Saket...God bless you with good health happiness wealth...LOVE YOU

Thanks so much Saket for your nice support answering questions and really hep to viewers.

you are really doing good job by helping people to better prepare for their interviews

Thanks a lot. I feel lucky to have tumbled down on this video. Truly helpful for interview.

Very useful questions. Thank you Saket for insightful and excellent solutions

Awesome session. Really helpful explanation of each question. Thank you Saket! 🙂

Saket sir you are doing a great job, I saw most of your interview videos, it is so realistic and so helpful. Kudos to you! Thanks you so much 🙏

very good questions and excellently answered by @skaet! your vedios helped a lot for preparation. A BIG THANK YOU SAKET!!!

One of the best I have ever heard!!

@iZenBridge Consultancy Pvt Ltd what are the ways to assess maturity of teams? How can we coach the team to higher level of maturity? I am really looking forward to your reply. Thanks!

Interesting questions, brilliant answers 👏

Do you have class published on Udemy?

Excellent. Thanks to both of you.

Great video. You have extraordinary coaching abilities!

Nice discussion. Very good thought process to know.

Sir thanks for taking the efforts to clear the interview it really proves skills are not only important tact of dealing employees and communication is also important. you are really hitting bulls eye...

These videos are outstanding,I can totally relate to the answers

Very very useful content.One question . How to decide budgeting of any scrum team.Who does that.

This was very helpful. Thanks.Great Discussions

Can you tell 2 example of process improvement initiatives where you as a scrum master implemented in the team and how does it benefited to the team What shud a candidate say

@16:00 I had a Qa who didn't showup to any retros getting him to Retro was harder then cracking the job interview (stories of 2019) good old tech days.

That was really helpfull and he answered it so well and explained each situation in a practical way .. kudos to you saketh 👍

Thanks so much,,, you were great

hello sir, first of all thank you so much for such useful videos. I got one interview question that why we estimate the user story in points rather then hour? and how US pointing is related to hour? COuld you please answer this?

I alwaz get an insight and ideas as to how to face an interview.....Thanks Saket.....

Nice video and well explained

How would one run a fixed budget or fix bid project via scrum where resources are limited, budget is fixed, time frame is decided. I faced a similar challenge where I was handed over a team (with wrong skillsets), team members were not embracing agile , had technical incompetency issues, with no time and money to up skill them, lack of positive attitude but still had to deliver quality and on time..they also felt scrum ceremonies were a over kill while we knew what all had to be delivered by the end so what's the point of estimating and retrospectives. Your perspective please Saket Sir..the client wanted this to be run as a scrum project but the consulting company ( my employer ) didnt care and just wanted it delivered on time and with quality.

To question #5 What will you do if dev team consume more time on their story and left testing team with less time in a sprint? What i think, just to add:- Agile is "iterative" and "incremental" model as learned by Saket sir YT video, so when we talk about testing, the responsibility of testing lies with development team also at least for initial sprints where we start to develop. Hence a basic testing can be done by the developer at starting.

Hi, thanks for your efforts, it will really help us to prepare interview for Scrum Master. I have a question regarding estimating story point with help of Poker. How we will or our team will come to know that is correct estimate. Please put some light on this.

Hi Saket ji , Backlog refinement is not listed as Scrum ceremony, what is the reason ? also when its recommended to have this session and with whom? thanks .

Hi Saket. Can you conduct a similar session for Product Owner interview questions?

hello sir, Is it mandatory to have the CSM certification to work as scrum master in industry ...Are you providing any course for the same . I have work as scrum team member for 2 yrs and would like change my profile to scrum master from developer . I have 10 yrs of IT exp .

Sir Pls let me know Whats your approach towards transition of Waterfall to Agile (Scrum )

Nice one .... Keep posted

There are sometime question like what type of process improvement you done in your team and what major conflict you faced with Product owner or stakeholders and how you resolve it.Can you answer these two questions with examples.

Hi Saket. Many scrum master roles demand expertise on estimation, slicing of stories and planning activities. Can you cover interview questions on that. How should we answer if we are not from technical background?

Nice video, Thank you sir

how to address Technical Debts? if the dev team doesn't have openness to share and it is NOT identified during internal code reviews.

Hi thanks for the questions and answers.. well explained.. I have a question.. recently I had an interview in which they asked what is Phycological safety which I couldn't answer.. but could understand that it was agile values and principles.. is there any way to get these kind of tricky questions which we know but with different terms. Are there any other terms like this in Agile

This is so helpful

What should be the approach when multiple teams from multiple time zones are working on the same project ?

Team Velocity is 25 of 6 team members and Product owner added 4 High priority story having velocity 36, as a scrum master what will you do ?

Is there any other video like this by Saket Bansal.

Very nice

Can two or more teams have the same Scrum Master? Meaning can one person act as the Scrum Master for more than one team?

@28:07 You said cancel sprint as per Scrum Rules. It is absolutely wrong statement. As per scrum guide, Scrum Master is not liable to cancel Sprint. If Sprint Goal becomes absolutely obsolete then Scrum Master can work with Product Owner to cancel sprint. It is either Product Owner or on discretion of Product Owner sprint can be cancelled. Every sprint cancellation results in budget consumption and sprint cancellation is not good practice. As per Scrum Guide, Sprint cancellations are often traumatic to the Scrum Team, and are very uncommon. Saket is right when he said there is no process. Best way to handle change request is to run by Product Owner first. If Portfolio manager or stakeholder brings change request then ask them to put change request in backlog and prioritised by Product Owner. If Product owner says change request has to be implemented in current sprint, e.g. High priority/severity production issues are falls in this category of change request, then development team has to trade off change request with current sprint backlog items. Development team should share impact analysis of accepting change request. Do they have capacity to accept and implement change request within remaining sprint time. If team is accepting change request say story point-5 then they can push sprint backlog item of same size into product backlog. Scrum Master has to ensure that development team do not over commit or do not get burdened. After discussing with team, scrum master can share consequences of accepting change request with management or in sprint summary report.

6. How to calculate velocity? how to increase it? factors impacting velocity? Give examples from your past experience? how you handled such situations?--- Skate has really 50% screwed up this question. Saket is right when he said first time velocity was calculated using guesstimate or past experience but rest was wrong. No one knows first sprints velocity. First time Development team commit user stories based on guess or past experience, e.g. they commit user stories for velocity - 25 or scrum master knows past performance of team in other project and says team's guess velocity is 25. Then development team goes and enter their efforts in hours against tasks created for stories. Scrum master enters team's capacity. Once development team creates tasks and enters efforts, SM can see how much bandwidth team still has to accept or remove Stories. Average velocity gets calculated after 3rd or 4th sprint. As team gets better with estimate velocity gets better. There are many factor which can help increase velocity e.g. Good product backlog refinement, how many sprints team is ahead of refinement, how well team understands vision of product, how is level of skillset of team, how less is team dependent upon other teams, is team able to self organise etc. Team with very high technology skills delivers product increment soon.

Answer to the first question is : constant coaching to the team as a scrum Master on agile values and principles, show casing them the importance and magic of the early feedback, periodic system demos , encouraging the open culture of sharing the impediments and help getting these impediments resolved quickly , team could see huge difference the style of project execution as against waterfall. It took almost 6 to 7 sprints for them to realize the benefits of the scrum and now no look back