Scrum masters are nontraditional product managers who work in the agile software development of scrum. They're focused solely on conflict resolution for the team that they are product managing.
The job of a scrum master is to successfully remove any obstacles or impediments that stand in the way of the team's success. Unlike traditional project managers, scrum masters surrender control to product owners, and trust teams with self-management whenever possible to maximize efficiency.
This starts at an internal level, delegating internal tasks and deflecting external issues to the product owner. It then elevates to the analyzing operations, identifying what systems are working, and what should be improved upon. The goal of this position is to help the product owner and the team reach it's full potential. You're responsible for protecting the team's efficiency at all costs, even if what's attacking it comes from other internal resources Your reward is the team's success.
Relinquishing control isn't always easy for those with product manager experience, but the laser focus on conflict resolution is designed to let productivity reach it's highest point. You're constantly creating breakthroughs, but strictly through invitation and innovation, not through pushing people and deadlines as a traditional project manager does.
This role fits into a nontraditional context that is the scrum approach, featuring just the scrum master, the product owner, and the team. This nontraditional design means that by reporting to nobody, you're reporting to everyone.
To be a successful scrum master, you must be entirely focused on solutions. Those solutions should resolve existing conflict and problems that weren't in existence until improvements we presented. You should be very logical, and able to deflate emotional outbursts that this role may encounter. You should be comfortable with being a leader, and be able to persevere - and take heat - from people who aren't aligned with this methodology.
A scrum master's resume should show situations where you've resolved conflict through out of the box tactics and creativity. It should also demonstrate scenarios where your authority and thought process were challenged, and you're perseverance allowed to to emerge successfully. Finally, it should indicate managerial experience.
Power words: conflict resolution, solution oriented, out of the box, creative, leader, perseverance, and relationship builder
Scrum Master Resume Sample
- Acted as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
- Acted as a Project Manager when necessary
- Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes
- Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information
- Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects
- Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them
- Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog
- Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology
- Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team
- Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
- Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
- Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
- Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions
- Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met
- Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
- Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example
- Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
- Took responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks
- Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
- Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
- Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
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