I was coaching someone new the other day. I knew they had a broad and deep non-software background and were pivoting into a Scrum Master role. It was their first job as a Scrum Master, and the hiring company was taking a leap of faith in hiring them. But I knew they had deep skills that would translate into the Scrum Master role and that they would do well.
That is…if…they would stay in their lane.
They had ~20 years of experience and had held organizational leadership roles in their previous companies. Given that, I knew it would be a challenge for them to, how to say it, be a Scrum Master. Especially when they encountered organizational, leadership, and broadly impacting impediments.
They also seemed to have a very proactive, fix-it mindset. I thought this would be hard to throttle in the context of Scrum Mastery in an early-stage and chaotic agile transformation, mainly if they were focused on doing things “right.”
