Future of the Scrum Master RoleSAMIR PENKARwww.futureofprojectmanagement.com

We don’t have professional full time Scrum Masters on agile teams

The Scrum Master role is:• Played by either a developer, business analyst or

QA

• Anyone on the team can volunteer for the role

• Can be rotated within team members

• They don’t hire Scrum Masters, they hire technical folks who demonstrate an agile mindset

“Demonstrated experience with Agile Development methodologies required. – part of job description”Katy Sherman

Director of Software Engineering at Premier Inc.

Survey Says..

Survey Says..

Survey Says..

3 pronged research methodology

1 2 3Survey One-on-one

deep dive sessions

Online research

Real people | Real stories |Practical advice

Let’s talk money

• Experience tends to have a bigger impact on pay rates

• 40% of IT professionals are likely to look for a new role this year

• IT unemployment rate is 2.9%

http://esp.com/salary-guide

Skills SOME FORESEE LIMITLESS NEW OPPORTUNITIES

WHILE OTHERS SEE MASSIVE DISLOCATION OF JOBS

Most in-demand occupations did not exists 5 years ago: Big Data, Hadoop, BI, Scaling Agile

65 % of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in jobs that don’t exists today

Top challenges for Scrum Masters

• Keeping management away from developers

• Coordinating outside the team

• Dealing with non-agile parts of the organization

• Scrum Master is an anti-pattern

• Creating T-shaped team members

• Getting people to really work as a team to share tasks and knowledge

• Educating the Product Owner

Career path for Scrum Masters

• Be a better Scrum Master

• Become an agile coach

• SME/Junior BA > Part time scrum master/shadow > scrum master > lead scrum master > agile coach

• There's no such thing

• That depends on the individual

• The role in itself is very vast. With 3 way responsibilities, its a career in itself

• It's a role. Roles do not have career paths

State of agile today

Pulse of the profession, 2017; PMI

State of Agile today

• Wide adoption across industries, companies and geographies

• Scaling agile is gaining a foothold. The Scaled Agile Framework had double digit growth last year

• New models are being proposed• Modern Agile

• Agnostic Agile

• Heart of Agile Movement

• Challenges to the core agile philosophy are emerging

• Certification scenario is going from bad to worse

• Big 4 seem interested. Accenture acquired Solutions IQ

• Tone of discussion/debate is not healthy

It’s all about “Mindset” change

"All change has to come from you. Even the people closest to you, even your spouse, won't change you, though they'll probably try. Real change comes from you saying, "You know what, I'm sick of this." It comes after years of introspection until [you] get [to] a point where you say 'I'm going to change,' whether it is losing weight or fighting climate change."

- Eric Corey Freed, RA, LEED Fellow in the book - The Real Story of Risk

A model for the future

A model to consider

An Agile/Lean Mindset +

Experience in 20+ two week Sprints

Appetite for continuous learning

Some certification

A model to consider

An Agile/Lean Mindset

Technical / Domain Expertise+

Experience in 20+ two week Sprints

Appetite for continuous learning

Some certification

Technical proficiency. Example Hadoop ecosystem, CI/CD, Java, Cloud

Depth in domain level knowledge. For example master data management, banking, retail, supply chain

A model to consider

An Agile/Lean Mindset

Technical / Domain Expertise

Team Captain + =

Experience in 20+ two week Sprints

Appetite for continuous learning

Some certification

Technical proficiency. Example Hadoop ecosystem, CI/CD, Java, Cloud

Depth in domain level knowledge. For example master data management, banking, retail, supply chain

You play with the team

You lead the team

You’re an active contributor. Solution Architect is a good role model

Were do you go next…

Drivers of change

• Flexible working arrangements – smaller pool of core full time employees

• Longevity and ageing societies

• Mobile and cloud technologies

• Shortening shelf-life of employees’ existing skills sets

• 50% of technical knowledge acquired during the first year technical degree is outdated by the time students graduate

What’s happening in town?

Thank you TAKE THE SURVEY AT WWW.FUTUREOFPROJECTMANAGMENT.COM

LET ’S STAY CONNECTED VIA LINKEDIN