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Why is becoming a Scrum Master a great career option?

Unlock your leadership potential! Discover why becoming a Scrum Master is a transformative career move for aspiring leaders in this insightful video. 🌟🚀

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Why is becoming a Scrum Master a great career option?

As an Agile Consultant, I think this is a great question, and I’m often asked why becoming a Scrum Master is a great career choice. 🚀  So, in this article, I will address this popular question circling the Agile sphere.

So why is becoming a Scrum Master a great career option? 🤔

The Scrum Master - A Stellar Step on the Leadership Track

Here’s my perspective: Firstly, I feel like the Scrum Master is the first next step for a team member on the leadership track.  🌟

The Scrum Master role is the perfect stepping stone for any team member on their journey to leadership. Imagine donning the gold shirt in Star Trek - it signifies your ambition to move forward, take on more significant accountabilities and demonstrate your leadership capability.   You want to demonstrate to your organization that you can lead.

Demonstrating Leadership Before Position

But remember, you have to demonstrate that leadership before you get the position. 🎯

Leadership isn’t granted with a title. It’s earned through action. If you’ve been a long-time team member, irrespective of your speciality - coding, testing, operations, or documentation, your focus should be enhancing your team’s effectiveness.  💼

Striving for Excellence in Your Domain

As a professional, you’ve been thinking, “How can you help your team be more effective?” as an individual, as an expert on that team. Logically, team members will look to you for some of those answers.

Now, what does this mean?

Let’s say you’re a whiz at automation. You’re demonstrating leadership if you’re constantly striving to make processes slicker to deliver more value to customers.

You’re showing that you’re knowledgeable and capable, and in doing so, you’re naturally transitioning into the Scrum Master role.  🌟And by adding more value, you are demonstrating that leadership ability. 🏆

Picking Up Accountabilities

Once the team respects you, and respects your ability to help them become way better, then that will be seen hopefully in the organization.

As a Scrum Master, you pick up accountabilities that perhaps nobody else addresses. Once you’re there and your team respects your ability to enhance their effectiveness, your leadership will go from strength to strength.  🎯

Scrum Master - Your First Step on the Leadership Ladder

So, if you ask me, the Scrum Master role is the starting point on the leadership track for any team member. From there, your journey can take you wherever you wish to go within your organization.

Remember, every organization has a unique flow, but the Scrum Master is a universally recognized and respected step on the leadership ladder. 📈

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That’s a good question. Why is becoming a scrum Master a great career option?

I feel like the scrum Master is the first next step for a team member on the leadership track. Right? Like the gold shirts in Star Trek. You’re wanting to move forward, you’re wanting to take on more accountabilities. You want to demonstrate to your organisation that you can lead, that you can bring a team along on a journey.

I think for that you have to demonstrate that leadership before you get the position. If you’re a team member, you’ve been working every TF team for a long time. Perhaps you’ve had a focus on excellence in whatever it is that you do, right? Because your background might not just be coding; it might be testing, it might be operations, it might be documentation, right? Whatever that is.

If you’ve had a focus on excellence in how can I help my team be more effective, just as an individual, as an expert on that team, then I think it’s logical that people on the team are going to look to you for some of those answers. If you’re the knowledgeable person about automation and how can we get better at doing this thing and make what we’re doing slicker so we add more value to the customer, then that’s you demonstrating that leadership ability that hopefully every member of your team has.

But if you stand out, perhaps they’ll be looking to you more and you’ll kind of naturally fall into that scrum Master role for the team. The accountability you’re picking up, that accountability that’s perhaps lying around.

Once you’re there and the team respects you and respects your ability to help them become more effective, then that will be seen hopefully in the organisation. For me, that leadership track from a team member starts with scrum master and then into wherever those go in your organisation. Every organisation is different for how that flow is, but it’s that step on the leadership ladder.

Thanks for watching the video. If you enjoyed it, please like, follow, and subscribe. I always reply to comments, and if you want to have a chat about this or anything else agile, scrum, or devops, then please book a coffee with me through Naked Agility.

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