32 Scrum master interview questions
Some time ago, I wrote a couple of blog posts about the interview process that I went through when I applied for the positions of Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Those were really interesting interviews, and they can be found here.
In this blog post, however, I am writing something different, a resource that you will hopefully find useful. I am providing 32 Scrum Master Interview Questions that anyone can use to interview Scrum Masters. This is a collection of questions that I have been accruing over several years and I believe they are extremely beneficial; please feel free to use them next time you are interviewing a candidate.
How would you help the team’s members find their role within the team?
How would you help the team to find a strong sense of purpose?
How would you help the team to maintain ideal Scrum Ceremonies?
How would you help the team to act as a team, and not just a bunch of individuals?
How would you help the team to Surface and Resolve Conflicts?
How would you help each individual to get better at what they do?
How would you help the team to raise the bar, so as to help them to continuously improve?
How would you help the team to identify possible improvements in their Engineering practices?
How would you help the team to establish effective team communication skills?
How would you encourage self-organisation within your team?
Are you aware of the 5 dysfunctions of a team, and can you create exercises to improve them?
How will you help the team to spread knowledge gained during development?
How would you coach the whole team to collaborate? (Give examples…)
Can you give examples that show that you allow the team to find their own answers instead of you giving them?
Are you focused on business value delivery? Give me examples of how you accomplish this.
How would you help and encourage everyone to express their opinions?
How would you help the team in identifying positive and negative changes during retrospectives?
How would you encourage team learning (fostering collaborative practices, pair programming, continuous integration, collective code ownership, short design sessions, specifications workshops, etc.)?
How would you encourage rotation in technical areas of concern: functionality, components/layers, roles, aspects, etc.?
How would you help the team in setting long term operating goals for all team members: agile practices to master, new skills to acquire, etc.?
How would you examine what is missing in order to make the environment better for everyone?
How would you prioritise improvement activities and make them happen?
How would you help the team to find access to external sources of information?
How would you help the team to find techniques to help them be more collaborative?
How would you encourage and facilitate open communication among the team members and with external colleagues?
How would you help and encourage healthy conflict during team meetings?
How would you help the team to mature their DoD?
How would you help the team create transparency and urgency around continuous system integration?
How would you help encourage the team to create small automated acceptance tests at the beginning and evolve from there?
How would you help encourage the team to coach each other in TDD, refactoring, and simple design?
How would you help encourage the team to use human-readable acceptance tests?
How would you help encourage the team to do pair and peer reviews?
Feel free to use part of these questions on your next interview. I would love to hear how it went.
Luis
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