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[jnieho]

It's helpful to hear the skills horizontally (coach, mentor, facilitate) but then go vertically and talk about HOW and give real examples of Give a story. Thank you Daria and Ryan!

[PrasannaMunukutla]

Great collaboration! I follow both channels, so this is fantastic 😄.
Besides Facilitation, coaching, teaching mentoring, I would go with Visualisation of team processes and flow analysis for clearing blockers and optimising.

[zadoksworld]

This is my first time here and I am interested in becoming a Scrum Master. I am glued to this channel

[mahmoudalaaeldin]

It was really helpful to hear like a practical interview in order to help us to pass the interview and get the scrum master job
As it's the first time for me to learn about this new job opportunity

[UL]

The question about working with coaches was really a behavioural question. Getting that one wrong would probably disintegrate whichever successful answer you gave prior to that. The "dumb" answer as suggested might work for a consultant selling her service, but would hint at a terrible person to work with in an organisational context. Her answer was perfect.

[ramseyabsessien]

Speaking of a good fit, no one actually knows if a company or an employee is a good fit until they get into it.

[abrahamigunma]

Can you give robust response on this question of "Tell me about yourself "?

[BlocheValentin]

Hey Daria ! Those kinds of role playing games are very interesting ! It's refreshing by changing the regular format of the videos :)
In your listing of the Scrum Master roles, unless the facilitation, coaching and mentoring stances, you do not include explicitly " team's impediments removal", which is, for me, an important role. If I missed the moment of the video when you talk about this, my bad :D Do you consider that mission implicit/included in the different stances of the Scrum Master ? Thx :)

[redacted]

[Disclaimer: Personal experience... your mileage may vary] As individuals are different then teams, too, are different. Keeping the agile fundamentals as a grounding and mindset, I have found that the coaching of Scrum (and other frameworks) means having a rucksack of tools that are light enough to carry with you (both figuratively and literally) helps differing situations. Being inquisitive (open questions mostly, unless decisions are required), fostering learning while coaching, bringing this back the the pillars and values and being present has brought better results. On the latter, being present can remind your team to keep focused (one of the values) on delivery. Why the rucksack analogy? Because its small enough to carry, there when you need it, reminds you that you may have to unpack Scrum, terminology and the all important value; and you might pack it differently depending on the audience (individuals, teams, P.O., the business and stakeholders.

[hoci]

Thank you so much for your inspiring and motivating videos. My question is, how do you write your resume when you are still looking for your first scrum master job and with zero experience?

[RogerMarket]

Good video and great answers to the questions, but I have some feedback: The video isn’t really applicable to someone looking for their FIRST scrum master job. This question and answer are for someone who already has experience and is a scrum coach as well.

[terrortingle]

So where is the difference between a Agile Coach and a Scrum Master in your opinion?

[BugTheRoot]

In theory the "scrum master is the coach", but anyone who has worked for a while in scrum will be able to tell you that most scrum masters acquire an adequate knowledge of team level scrum values and practices, but very few actually achieve a coach's level of proficiency in agility. In other words, some scrum masters barely understand their role and are nothing more than glorified assistants. Others are good facilitators and know scrum quite well at the team level, but do not know how to coach at the program, portfolio, or enterprise level. Some scrum masters can only guide by quoting back the agile manifesto, or perhaps the scrum guide, but do not know the WHY behind the guide. After having coached around 100 scrum masters, I would say that barely 10% are coaches. We coaches need to do a better job of elevating their skills and helping them mature.

[ripsirwin]

She never gave a story about a time she demonstrated any of these "skills". Anyone could have memorized the answers she gave.