What are the skill levels of a Scrum Master?


Every career, be it engineering, medical, commerce, arts, media, fashion designing or anything else has it’s certain levels like juniors, intermediate, seniors, gurus/masters and what not.

While being a ‎Professional Scrum Master, a person brings knowledge to the table, he is called as a facilitator between the team and the product owner, instead of managing just the team, and they work to assist both the parties.

This certain title is a liaison between the doers and the planners, it is their responsibility to make sure that every requirement is being met and all the tools required to accomplish their goals are provided and all the barriers are removed that comes in the way of their teams along the way of completing a project.

Following are the skills needed for a scrum master:

This set of skills is divided into two categories; Hard and soft skills.

Hard Skills:

1.      Strong Scrum and Agile Training

2.      Organizational Skills

3.      Technical Familiarity

Soft Skills:

4.      Teaching and Coaching Abilities

5.      Conflict Facilitation

6.      Servant Leader

 

Many people think of it as a simple job but being a scrum master has its own technicalities, it has different levels on which the hierarchy is being distributed.

Certification hierarchy:  Scrum certifications globally known are

 

1.      Fundamental

2.      Intermediate

3.      Advanced

 

Fundamental:

·         SFC: Scrum fundamentals certified.

Introductory online course for anyone interested in learning about scrum.

·         SDC: Scrum developer certified.

For all Scrum Team Members, Participants and Stakeholders.

Intermediate:

·         SMC: Scrum master certified.

For all Scrum Masters.

·         SPOC: Scrum product owner certified.

For all Scrum Product Owners.

·         SAC: Scrum agile certified.

General Agile Certification for Agile Professionals and Change Agents.

Advanced:

·         ESMC: Expert scrum master certified.

Advanced course for all Scrum Masters.

(Professional Scrum Certified)

Skill Levels:

These are not officially defined but they explain the process to some extent, in actual practice, these levels are different depending upon experience:

1.      Rotating Scrum Master: The responsibilities as a Scrum Master rotates between the members of the administration and they do it on sprint by sprint basis.

2.      Part time Scrum Master: A member of the team takes the role of a scrum master along with his other responsibilities with the team.

3.      Full time dedicated Scrum Master: this role is best suited for a team who is learning agile. A person takes a soul responsibility one time.

4.      Full time Scrum Master with more than one team: This is specially applied when there are multiple teams involved and one person has to act as their Scrum Master.

5.      Agile Coach: A person who does not work with one specific team and is demanded on need basis.

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