Scrum Master Interview Experience Conversation Mar 2024

In this detailed conversation, the topics discussed span various aspects of Agile and Scrum methodologies, along with practical scenarios and challenges encountered in Agile project management, team dynamics, and continuous improvement strategies. Key areas covered include:
1. Stakeholder Conflicts: Approaches to handling stakeholder conflicts, particularly in situations where prioritization and emergency implementations come into play.
2. INVEST Criteria and Dependencies: Challenges of adhering to INVEST criteria in user stories with interdependencies, especially in data warehousing and e-commerce scenarios.
3. Work In Progress (WIP) Limits in Kanban: Discussion on calculating and managing WIP limits, particularly in teams with fluctuating priorities and triage scenarios.
4. Transitioning to Agile: Strategies and metrics for managing teams new to Agile, highlighting the importance of gradual improvement and monitoring through metrics like velocity and capacity utilization.
5. Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD): The significance of CFD in visualizing project status and flow, and how it aids in understanding lead times, cycle times, and throughput.
6. ADKAR Change Management Model: Application of the ADKAR model in Agile transformations, focusing on creating awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, and reinforcement for sustainable change.
7.Stakeholder Management: Techniques and metrics for effective stakeholder engagement and management, using tools like the power-interest grid and stakeholder engagement matrices.
8.Scrum Antipatterns: Identifying and addressing common pitfalls in Scrum practice, underscoring the importance of continuous learning and adaptation to maintain Scrum integrity.
9.Hardening Sprints: Exploring the concept of hardening sprints, their implications for Agile processes, and conditions under which they might be necessary or avoided.
This conversation serves as an extensive resource for Scrum practitioners, project managers, and those interested in Agile methodologies, providing insights into real-world scenarios and offering practical solutions to enhance team performance, project outcomes, and Agile transformation efforts.
0:00 Sharing of Recent Interview Experience
01:34 Experience in Managing Stakeholders conflict
07:43 Handling Unrealistic demands from stakeholders
09:16 Impact of Adding people in the project
11:03 Showing Possibilities
13:56 Incrementally delivering Value
14:47 Handling Dependencies in User Stories - INVEST
23:21 Handling Stress during the interview
26:41 Discussion around Lead time and WIP
33:28 Recommended Metrics for new time
45:40 Cumulative Flow Diagram
48:57 How do you Support Agile Transformation
1:00:09 Power and Interest Grid
1:02:54 Anti-Patterns
1:05:40 Hardening Sprint

[@darshnamishra7278]

One of the best learning video .. Thanks

[@nehatiwary5674]

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[@izenbridge]

Thank you for your support. Yes we will add more episodes in our Project Manager Interview Mastery Series

[@nehatiwary5674]

@@izenbridge Hello Dear it's you all as team who is supporting the whole as community and there life to make easier ,please keep supporting us 🙏😊thank you once again ❤️

[@aaryankaul]

Wonderful insights

[@izenbridge]

Thank you for checking it out.

[@Shweta-k]

Saket sir, I like the way you explain and give that big picture. Your perspective has always helped me with my interviews thank you so much...

[@izenbridge]

Thank you for sharing your feedback. happy to know you liked the content.

[@izenbridge]

Got this question : As a PM i believe we can still measure individual performance to rate him promotion and other things. Also this helps to identify who is more productive and delivered more Story points and can help to coach the one who is delivering less.,Though scrum insists on overall team.performance in deliveries Please let me know your thoughts. My View: In my understanding no development approach takes care of this issue, like Waterfall as we study from books does not have recommendation for it, and same way Scrum or SAFe , no recommendation. One of the reason is output are not clearly identifiable to individuals, like if some story are done it involves many people and collaboration so success and failure or story can't depend on one person. Individual feedback is something should be done but how to measure should be more subjective and conversation driven rather than number.

[@rajeswarikv9396]

Thankyou

[@rajeswarikv9396]

Any tips how to measure individual performance for agile PM

[@izenbridge]

@@rajeswarikv9396 As we cover in PMP, it is about setting the periodic objectives with each team member and measuring it to find out how to improve and support the performance. In most of the organizations its a organization level process rather than project level, irrespective of you use agile, scrum, kanban , SAFe or waterfall org want to grow their people

[@ROAK_me]

Thank you Saket🙏🙏🙏

[@izenbridge]

You're welcome 😊

[@ROAK_me]

Dear Saket, Please continue the series and include PM and Delivery Manager roles and what technical skills you need to know as a PM, SM & DM to remain relevant in the changing demands of the market for these roles.

[@izenbridge]

We are coming with one of the PM interview in coming days, and we do see many project managers growing in domain / business analysis skills which helps them in doing product management or part of it, some are also taking the growth towards program management

[@shibamroad4012]

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[@SwadeshiKitchen]

Sir , you have used vertical user story and horizontal user story . Please let know more about that . Thanks

[@izenbridge]

This term is like how we divide the big work in small, vertical mean we divide in a way the small work can be tested end to end and horizontal mean you divide on function line like UI, TEST , code

[@rajeswarikv9396]

If we have multiple features (backlog items),how to have sprint goal.As sprint goal should be one common goal.It can't use commas and statements to comibine multiple requirements as one goal..In that case should we not define sorint goal..Or do we need to mention the highest priority of those items as a sprint goal for that sprint?

[@izenbridge]

It depend on which framework you use and why you want to have Sprint goal, in case of SAFe you can have Sprint / Iteration Goals , in case of Scrum sometime their material insist on just one goal. I think it all depend on how you adapt it, in general we want to keep it less but not necessary always one.

[@NiteshSingh-bv9lu]

I'm looking for job in Android app developer 8 years experience. I'm eligible for job in Android app developer. I have do hard work and new challenge work Very best wishes to you, Nitesh Kumar Singh

[@izenbridge]

Thank you for checking our videos , as of now our focus is more on project management side.

[@sunstar781]

Is she really a program manager too

[@Shweta-k]

i want to know if she got the job,... interviewers are snapping alot looks like lol.. not a good culture to work in such environment..