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Scrum Master: experience and recruitment (in Europe)

Last post 04:44 pm June 22, 2023 by Nicholas Gabrichidze
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01:24 pm June 22, 2023

Hello all,

Let's say that as per job description, the Scrum Master candidate should have 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master.

1. What does happen if the candidate has 3 years of experience? Isn't that enough?

2. What does happen if the candidate worked in a Scrum Team for several years as a Developer, could/should some of these years be considered as experience in the framework and/or as Scrum Master?

 

I think that the answer to this topic could really depend on the specific country (maybe Switzerland or France), but thank you in advance for sharing any thoughts about it, no matter the region.

 


04:22 pm June 22, 2023

1. What does happen if the candidate has 3 years of experience? Isn't that enough?

It could be more than enough, or nowhere near enough.

2. What does happen if the candidate worked in a Scrum Team for several years as a Developer, could/should some of these years be considered as experience in the framework and/or as Scrum Master?

It could be of great relevance, or of very little at all.

Perhaps that job description says more about the organization, and the constraints it uses to try and quantify complexity, including people, than it does about the person they are trying to recruit.


04:44 pm June 22, 2023

If they want the Scrum master with 5 years experience they will probably not hire Scrum master with 3 years experience. Or will, if the Scrum master with 5 years experience will not show up

Years of experience isn't the worst I can remember among Scrum and Agile job advertisent's in Europe

I can remember few atrocious job descriptions

Let me just recall few(not exact quotes because I just saying what I remember)

"Product owner wanted to work on Product backlog with a team of other product owners"

"Scrum master wanted. Job description-should maintain Jira documentation for the team, collect the status reports at daily stand up and report progress to the Product owner"

"Scrum Kanban specialist wanted to set up daily standups and manage the team of programmers"

"Scrum supervisor wanted"

That juts a few I remember, can recall more. Don't ask who are the last two positions, I don't know.

 


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