Scenario Based Scrum Master Interview Questions - iZenBridge
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- The video covers the Scenario Based Scrum Master Interview Questions. Agile Trainer Saket Bansal is discussing various aspects related to Scrum Interview.
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1:41 - Background of the Professional.
2:31 - Being a scrum master while handling a team, how to answer when the work of the team is not completed as expected. How to answer in an Interview? Apart from saying "I try to understand", "I will look after blockers."
11:40 - What will you do as a Scrum Master if the Product owner is assigning tasks directly to the team member?
16:48 - Why Scrum master should play role in the development team, why can't he come to product owner understanding and his business priorities?
19:43- Conflict Management
33:46- Velocity in Sprints
42:38 - Which Scrum Event is more important? What do you don't like in Scrum?
#scrum #scrummaster #scruminterviewquestion #agile #projectmanagement #agilemethodology #scrummethodology #agileframework #careerinagile #agilecoaching #csm
Just wondering if there are any nice words left to praise you for your tremendous contributions to the Scrum community. You are truly one of a gem of all trainers for all Scrum
Master aspirants ... kudos.... 👏👏👏👏 ..
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Thank you for your kind words.
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2 points I like - Velocity cant be a target rather a means of reviewing performance. secondly having a meaningful definition for 'done' will always gives good velocity
How does definition of done give good velocity?
My overall IT experience is 6 years. I have been working as middleware admin/Database admin/Oracle cloud admin all these years. During this course, I have realized my strengths and interests are NOT in this admin roles . I have never enjoyed doing it. My strengths, interests, clearly fall into people management, leadership roles, mentoring, collaboration, attending meetings, talking to clients, training, coaching junior resources, developing their soft skills, interpersonal communication skills, so on and so forth. After doing enough research I found Scrum master or Project manager or business analyst or becoming an agile coach matches my skills. So I have attended ITIL, PRINCE2 Agile, CSM, CSPO, SAFe scrum master workshops in a span of year and cleared respective certification exams. I have thoroughly enjoyed the workshop, preparations, reading these books, etc. I would like to see myself as a Scrum Master, Project manager or an Agile coach, or SAFe SPC. I want to make a career switch. 01. Is my thinking correct? 02. Am I heading in the direction? For someone who has no experience in development background, 03. will I be able to handle such roles?
Yes. Go for it. All the Best
Thank you so much. I am Scrum Master today.
Congratulations !!
From where did you got the certification?
Your clarity of thoughts and insights into motive behind questions is really awesome. Lately, I have been learning a lot from your videos and it has reignited my passion for Agile which I thought I lost due to boxed thinking n conformity to a pattern
Great to hear!
I’m a fresh admirer of your videos. Thank you for taking the real interview questions and providing the most befitting answers. It’s been a great learning experience since the first video itself. Thank you for the great work.
Thank you for your comment, you can find the playlist of this series here : th-cam.com/play/PLWcvFkRbuunn534zhHAQ0pn0uJ2sCXgjo.html
Thanks to both of you... Fruitful discussion
Great Explanation and its really helpful. Thank you so much Saket.
Thanks Saket for helping so many professionals through your videos! Very helpful SM interview QnA.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for taking time to share your knowledge to Scrum community!!!
Our pleasure!
Excellent session...
thank you so much, this person and his willingness to give answers with full involvement is a great USP.
Thank you so much for such an informative session.
great explanation, very knowledgeable.
Awesome 💯, your sessions are so close to the reality. All your conversations are making sense.👍
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Simply Wonderful.. very good insights about the real time challenges !
Glad you like them!
Great efforts Saket...No words for such a wonderful insight into Scrum and overall implementation.
Thank you.
Saket sir, your answers are very sincere and to the point, very good learning experience from you. Thanks so much for creating meaningful content in this space.
Thanks and welcome
Saket, you helped me so much to pass my PMP. Just wanted to express my gratitude and tell you that you are an amazing teacher.
Glad I could help!
Too informative and practical answers!! Thank you so much saket!!
Glad you liked it!
Wow, amazing i really liked the solutions, appreciate you. Great conversation.
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You are doing great sir, appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us.
So nice of you
wonderful contents.... Great learning. Your thoughts are grounded and well articulated. I am going to be regular on your videos from now on...
Dear Saket, Your videos are very much informative and engaging.. Appreciate all your contribution to the community
Thanks a ton
Thanks Saket ....your videos are senario based and practical. 👍
Glad you like them!
Thankyou so much for sharing the videos.
I really like the way you calmly explained all the things.
Very effective for me thankyou once again.
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I have an Interview in an hour and watching this video definately makes me much more comfortable heading into the Interview. Thanks for the information and experience.
Wonderful!
Yes no matter how great PM or agile expert u r but without understanding the situation and analysis it will be difficult to come to conclusion.
Hi Saket,
I have been following you for quite a long time and I have learnt a lot from your videos.
I work as a Technical Project Manager, in many ways, as Scrum Master as well. I have a team of developers with experience ranging from 3 to 7 years.
Problem in the team is that they are not ready to help each other in tricky situations. When they do, then they make a scene out it that the other person doesn't know anything and they try to reflect in front of management, so that they can be upwards in the game. Definitely, there are perks in my organisation for those perform well. But I feel this is not a good way to go up the ladder, by bringing someone down.
In multiple, 1:1 sessions with each developer, I have tried to make them aware that, team effort is required to bring them and the team in good light and to gather the perks as well. I have continuously been appreciating each of them about their good doings and how they can work on their shortcomings. Whenever required, pair programming and mentorship with Engineering Lead has been provided.
Still this situation doesn't seem to improve. What would you suggest to me, that I as an SCM or TPM can do here?
Thanks,
Anurag Gupta
As you see organization environment is rewarding competition, now we need to find out how can collaboration get rewarded and appreciated. People see value is showing they are doing better than other, how can they start seeing value in showing that they are helping and developing others. I think if we can find the answer to this, we may find the path.
it is all so good...very informative and your conversation has the fear of an interview
Thank you for your comment
Thank you so much..I have learnt lot of things from your videos🙏
Glad to hear that
this is a gem! protect him at all costs
Thank you for your kind words.
Hey Saket , fortunately came across your channel and I don't have words to describe what I got from this video. Very impressive..It was direct connet with mind and was feeling this should be never ending conversation. Very impressive..thanks...any means to connet with you if need any help in future?? Thanks in advance..
Glad you liked it! if you like to schedule similar conversation, you can drop email at saket.bansal@izenbridge.com
One thing u cleared that or mention that scrum master can't b rigid. If it happens then friction will b der .Any company would like to c teams working very smoothly. With collaboration team can achieve the goal.
Thanks a lot Saket Sir for such a wonderful and very important session. Keep it up
So nice of you
Thanks a lot saket
Thanks saket, it helps us to understand the scenario base questions and answers.
Thank you.
Very informative and Practical answers Really helpful .Thanks you
Glad it was helpful!
I really liked various scenarios discussed here. Mainly empathizing with all stakeholders for why that step is taken. And many relevant practical problems were discussed. Really informative. Thank you.
Happy to know you liked it.
Very well explained....🙏🙏
Glad you liked it
@Saket bansal - Wow, absolutely amazing answers. Hays off to you.
Thank you for your comment.
This is a nice presentation. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks saket. its clear my view for some question
Happy to help
Really nice I was able to connect to all shared scenarios.. really appreciated..
Glad it helped
excellent conversation almost close to my thoughts on Scrum
Thank you for sharing.
Very nice answers. Hope these will help many individuals in their career.
Thank you for your comment.
Awesome
You are my guardian angel Saket sir,was able to crack multiple interviews due to such amazing insights shared through these videos.Would love to get in touch regarding future SAFe/Agile certifications
Glad videos helped you. You can write to sales@izenbridge.com for your certification needs.
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For question where one of the team member took an emergency leave, thats a risk that should have been analyzed before had, so i would take up to product manager and discuss the risk response that could have been documented.
Great session!!!!
Thank you for comment
Awesome discussion 🎉🎉very helpful Saket
Glad it was helpful!
had a great learning
Thank you.
Great video Sir
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Brilliant!
Thank you
very good answer good way to keep it.
Thank you
Good job Mr. saket.
Thank you for your comment.
@26:56 similar question asked 4 years ago when I had attended an Interview in Ivy Comptech. Ofcourse, I couldn't answer better.
Thank you for sharing
Wonderful
Thank you.
Good discussion
Thank you for checking it out.
Nice and very helpful
Thank you.
You are taking lot of time, you can come straight to the point
Nice session Saket
Thank you
Pretty cool SM Q&A experiences ...but sounds like a more PM questions.
Very nice content sir. One question I have, Which is best in below two ways a) all team members having good knowledge in all areas of the product backlog b) individuals having expert knowledge in only one area and not working on any other area
Both options do not look best, ideally, team members have deep knowledge in their core skills and working understanding of other areas. Once the team is chosen, they find out proper collaboration to deliver the best results.
Always very practical ways of answering Saket.. Kudos
Glad you liked it. Keep exploring.
Hello, my colleague advised me watch your videos. It was a great learning. Thanks ! I have taken few Scrum trainings and now preparing for certification. However, I am not getting from where to start watching your videos. Could you please suggest from where to start ?
Since you already know basics, you may just want to check some of the interview experiences, you can find list of our scrum master interview related videos in this playlist th-cam.com/play/PLWcvFkRbuunn534zhHAQ0pn0uJ2sCXgjo.html
Sir, could you please tell the difference between SAFe scrum master certification and safe advanced scrum master certification, how do they differ concepts wise, and roles and responsibilities aspects....pls help...
awosome!
Wonderful, wonderful conversation from you both. I am about to start interviewing for scrum roles and you all just blew my mind with this discussion. Thank you so much
Happy to know you found it useful.
How is the interview process going for you?
@@TransformedbythewordR I'm trying my best and hoping to land a good job soon
Very Informative Q&A.If one needs to approach for some guidance or discussion around the same Scrum Master or Agile Coach space,how to do that ?
Sure . Please drop email at Saket.bansal@izenbridge.com
Thanks a lot Sanket
Hi Saket, I’m following you from while and videos are providing very good knowledge, thanks for that and I’ve came up one interview question hope you will help me to get a better answer. Question “Interviewer gave me a supply chain gift shop inventory where can make more profits. How do you collaborate with the PO to negotiate time which should be delivered in 2 weeks but the team thinks it will take 6 months ?
I think the person may wanted to see how you approach this problem and I feel there is no perfect way, in order to do something we need to manage demand and capacity. We either have to increase the capacity or reduce the demand (or prioritize it) some amount of miss balance may sustain for while but ultimately it has to manage. once people involved get this, they can find the solution, the only issue is people do not get clear idea of what is the capacity and how critical is demand and that results in conflicts
@@izenbridge thank you
I would love to give 1000 likes but sorry Saket I could only manage to give 1 like to this fantabulous video. Please continue making such inspiring and realtime scenario based interview questions and we are anxious to find reply from an experienced person in the industry 👍
Thank you for your comment and like, we take it as 1000 likes only.
Hello Saket, Your videos are really really helpful but there is one feedback that I want to give that every time I go for an interview I have to play the video and then revise which is little time consume while I am in rush to go through these interviews. Can you please provide these in written document even. These are such wonderful interactions that anyone will pay for it and I will be the first buyer :)
Thank for sharing your view, we will see if we can make some tutorial or collection of blogs on this.
@izenbridge On estimating using story points do we need to increase SP if we have external dependency,though this is external and has nothing that do with Scrum team
No, that is not intention of Story point, it is your effort, complexity ,risk ...wait time does not change Story point
What should be my approach as a Scrum Master, if there is a new story needs to be added in the current sprint. (1 - at Mid of the Sprint, 2 - Near the end of the Sprint
How to manage the demand of adding work to ongoing sprint ? #projectmanagement #pmp #pmbok #scrum
One guy can do work for 2 hours, another - for 8 hours. There are many situations when developers can't estimate tasks accurately
SM if start to force to increase the velocity then again it becomes traditional PM ...it all based on the team on how much they can deliver...
we think so.
Good explanations, Is product owner is responsible to report to Scrum master on his daily updates.
No one should report to anything in Daily Scrum to scrum master, idea is we share information so it helps us in inspecting and adapting for achieving the current sprint goal. So whenever PO feel he also has something which can help team in inspecting and adapting, PO should do. Usually Daily Scrum is Dev group meeting.
Hi Saket, I am following your videos closely for upcoming interviews. I have come across a question - Role of Scrum Master during PI planning, would request you to share a small video based on your understanding and Knowledge.
Thanks
Neha
Here is the brief of SM role during PI planning meeting - SM encourages everyone to participate, they ensures relative estimates are used, they focus the discussion around the contested items, they identify subject matter experts who need to be present, they keep time spent estimating stories to a minimum etc.
You can also participate in discussion with Saket, if you are interested, please write to sales@izenbridge.com
Thanks team@@izenbridge , your inputs are valuable.
These are really helpful, there was a question that if I have to start a scrum team from the scratch. What are the factors that I need to consider
In my view when we start new scrum we start from scrum from the book, mean as told in your training class or scrum guide. If I get asked this, I will say we will first define what problem we have and what are our assumptions which makes us feel that scrum will solve our problem, and we apply scrum from the book for some time and see did we solve our problem or we need to change something to solve our problem.
We also run Agile Coaching Program which is meant for enabling professionals on guiding and mentoring agile teams, you may want to check that out : www.izenbridge.com/certified-agile-coach-icp-acc/virtual/
@@izenbridge thanks
Great job how can we participate in such session
Yes, you just need to list down some of the tentative questions so and send email to saket.bansal@izenbridge.com and work out the schedule, the session has no fee, just we keep recording for sharing and you can keep your identity hidden.
could you please answer this in relation with first question? -what if we continue to get requests during the sprint that the client asks to be done immediately? i believe this is also one of the question we SM's are asked oftenly
We spoke on similar topic yesterday in our power hour, here is the link takes you directly to the conversation : th-cam.com/users/liveR3lgNkShDD4?si=Npx05USXhvHt-PHi&t=1048
I see in Interview when such questions are asked, they look for how we manage stakeholders in collaborative manner so stakeholders becomes supportive to the development and process.
Looking some advanced scrum master
If you mean to say that you are looking for Scrum Alliance's Advanced Scrum Master program, here is the link which can help:
www.izenbridge.com/scrum/a-csm-advance-scrum-master-virtual/
Sir, is this Agile Testing... Scrum master interview questions?
Hello Sir
Thanks for the wonderful details and for this video...
based on this video and your other videos I have something to conclude is that even I give the correct answer in the interviews based on scrum guide's guidelines still companies not giving me the chance to work as Scrum Master. I belong from QA Domain/experience and was leading QA team and later on given responsibilities of SM too and so I did my PSM 1 certification in 2020. But now when I give interview rejection is not based on skills, they usually rejects saying that I do not have experience as Scrum Master.
Bad interviewers are my misfortune or what !? What to do in this situation ? Being QA person, I will say it is "cherry on the top", (because I believe ultimately scrum tells the problems in the process, it will not solve your problems. ) if scrum master belongs to QA background and has technical knowledge but few companies not considering it at all.
I do not want to leverage the PSM 2 certification until I get the Scrum Master role.
What i think is organization are looking more and more for Delivery Leaders, the Scrum master is more leader to ensure delivery than to explain scrum now a days. so work on skills for delivery leadership, like stakeholder management , developing team, using process for delivery and I am sure organization would like to have good leaders.
Hello saket, I have one question which is being asked in my recent scrum master interview is why we need a scrum master when a project manager or lead can do the same stuffs like coaching, felicitating about the project and the goals
I hope this reaches you and you could help me out with the expected answers? thanks in advance looking forward for your support
If one team has Team Leader and Project Manager, I do not think they need to add additional role called scrum Master, in my view Scrum Master is team level leader, it is just called Scrum Master since it works in context of leading and mentoring team in scrum. So SM is role, a Team Leader can play that role.
Good day folks,
I ran into a few questions during my interview span. Here, I'm listing them out.
1. Agile Manifesto
2. Principles and values of Agile
3. Principles and values of Kanban
4. Why should a sprint run for 2 weeks and not for 1 or 3 weeks?
5. DOR and DOD, which one should be meet the acceptance as an individual and as a whole?
6. When to choose Scrum and Kanban?
7. If a customer is least interested in your product, how'd you overcome it, as a scrum master?
8. Explain story pointing in simple terms
9. What if a PO decides to pull out a few user stories at the end of the Sprint and planned to involve a few new stories, which are pushed by the business?
10. What if the team isn't ready to accept Agile/Scrum?
11. How do you do capacity planning in a qualitative and quantitative way?
12. If a team is well organised and you don't see any blockers. During the sprint planning, the entire team has agreed to deliver the user stories on time. How do you ensure the team delivers the user stories on time?
12. How do you help your PO in backlog refinement?
13. What are the changes you have observed as a team, after the transition of Agile from Waterfall?
Please do go through the entire Agile Manifesto, as some (only a few) start with text book questions.
Do you have answers for above the question ? If yes please share it will help for all beginners
Hi sir,
I just want to say you're doing well. PLease how can one support this platform to grow, I really need to throw in my own financial support no matter how small it might be,,,smiles
Thank you for your kind words and support. You can support by interacting more on our channel and also at oguild.com
Hello, I am new in this field. I really appreciate Your interview videos. I am Looking For BA interviews too. Any Recommendation. I need help with the interview preparation.
Thank you for watching our videos on Scrum Interview, we did one session on PO with participant , and we can do with you as well, here you can find the link of PO based conversation th-cam.com/video/osTmhEQ8ubk/w-d-xo.html
Drop us an email at saket.bansal@izenbridge.com if you want to schedule similar conversation.
@@izenbridge Thank you so much for your response. I will surely contact you for an interview prepration.
Hi Saket,
I’ve never been a scrum master, though I have the worked in Scrum as a Developer and have a CSM certification. I’m starting a new role as a Scrum Master. What basic things do I need to do in my first few weeks to be successful? Appreciate your help.
Congratulation for your new role, our recommendation is to start with thinking
1. What as a developer you expected from SM
2. What you saw your SM doing
3. What you felt was needed but not done by you SM
In general, SM should think how can I make my team effective. You have already done CSM so you know the standard role of SM, now what is needed is to find our what your given team needs the most.
@@izenbridge Thanks for your assistance. It will certainly help.
Hi, just came across ur video, just passed my PSM1 exam was wondering if u can be my mentor
Thank for Watching, we are more in CSM certification and training, you may want to check our schedule here: www.izenbridge.com/agile-and-scrum/csm-certification-training
Wao amazing 👏 vedio on scrum interview, thanks!! I have some questions can you work with me on those?
Thank you for liking the content, please drop me an email to schedule the conversation, my email is Saket.Bansal@izenbridge.com
Hello, I have an experience in sales and marketing and want to switch my career in Scrum master. I don't have any it related knowledge so far and i m planning to do certification in scrum master. So should I go ahead or only it experience can go for scrum master?
Doing certification does help not necessary ensure you make the career transition, along with certification you may need to work on skills needed for Scrum Master and ensure need to create some examples . We do have mentoring platform to support you, its oguild.com
for certification you can reach here: www.izenbridge.com/certified-scrum-master/
Could you please tell me what you will do in a situation where there are two different teams with need to work hand in hand to deliver the product but due to conflict between teams they don't deliver in time. How will a scrum master handle such situations as you are not technical enough to judge both the team.
In general , SM should take care of healthy interactions , so working on things to build trust and collaboration between teams
@@izenbridge that healthy failed so that's why delivery is now having impact because SM is not aware who speaks truth on the solution part...but now the impact is for both from client perspective
Hello sir how can I join your community thanks I love your vidéos
As of now this community is linked with this program www.izenbridge.com/industry-readiness-programs/industry-enabled-scrum-master-iesm
Any idea how a role based scrum master interview would be like? appreciate if some one can throw light on that
I am not clear about your question, we do have many videos on scrum master role specific interviews only and here you can find the playlist :
th-cam.com/play/PLWcvFkRbuunn534zhHAQ0pn0uJ2sCXgjo.html
Can you please tell me that these interview questions are from which organization ?
Hi, We don't ask that to candidate, our objective is to have some exploration around questions and take some insights from it
@@izenbridge Thanks a lot
@iZenBridge Consultancy Pvt Ltd
Team is facing difficult technical challenge and there is high level of uncertainty as how to solve it. in result there are some performance issue, so how you as a scrum master would facilitate it
Hello,
Can you help me prepare for my interview one on one?
If you wish to have similar conversation like this, drop us email at saket.bansal@izenbridge.com
is it that Scrum Master is only from Client side? Suppose you work for a vendor company, can they have scrum master roles?
In general we do see scrum masters at vendor side quite often.