and it means you're stupid hi my name is Daria welcome to scrum master video series where I
give you practical tips on how to build awesome teams in today's video I wanted to talk about
traits that a scrum master should have in order to be successful and in order to enjoy this role
I feel that a lot of times you can work on your knowledge and you can develop the skills that
need it for the job but if you don't have the right type of personality you cannot really
succeed in job real well and you will not really enjoy it because at the end of the day if a scrum
master is enjoying the role if they're enjoying working with their teams they won't be able to
bring better results another thing is is that personality and your personal traits come with
you this is something that is more embedded in you and it is more difficult to change rather than
acquire new skills and new knowledge so if you have the right type of personality then it will
be so much more easier for you to be successful faster it doesn't really mean that you have to
have those traits in order to get into the role but you should be willing to actually work on them
in order to develop in this role in the same way agile is entwined said I think that scrum master
role is a personality so in this video I wanted to highlight four traits that I personally feel
and differentiate between an okay scrum master and an amazing scrum master number one great
scrub masters care for others it's a type of role where you should really think mostly about
your team about how can you make things better for the team the process is better how can you
solve the challenges that they cannot solve on their own it's never really about in yourself
it's more about elevating your team obviously if your team is doing great it means they're building
great products and your stakeholders are happy it comes back to you as a scrum master because you
were able to empower this team to be successful number two great scrum masters or people person
a lot of time you spend in a scrum master all you actually spend communicating with others whether
it's within your team coaching the team members or outside of your team with management or other
teams around you in order to create communication channels so if you're not really enjoying this
part where you need to spend a lot of time with people then maybe it was promised role you will
not be as happy so it doesn't mean that you have to be an extrovert it just means that you should
be comfortable spending time with people you can still have your alone time in order to recover
but just be ready to spend a lot of your time with other people and talking about it having
discussions and sometimes Ebates about scrum and agile number three create scrum masters
or a patient and this is I think one of the most important ones why because there's a scrum master
you you're bringing change into people's lives and the people's ways of working obviously since you
care for others you want to bring positive changes as fast as possible but if you're pushing too much
change on people they are more resistant to it so when I say that scrum master should be patient is
they should look for small victories for small things that they can improve rather than making
a huge change in people's ways of working when you are working in a scrum a lot of times you'll
see that your gears might be rejected and it's okay that's where the patient comes in where you
need to come back with new ideas and suggestions and always good ways to help others understand
of small improvements can make a big deal in their ways number four grades Grand Master's
are curious since you need to look for new ways to grow the new ideas to brief your team you should
be curious enough to look for those ways there is no one perfect way to improve the processes
and dynamics of motivation if you have enough curiosity you will actually enjoy looking to
this going outside reading up books and articles I spend a lot of my workday looking for new ways
to do four new practices some things that I have not thought about but I can bring into my team
or great improvements and I really enjoy this for if you really something and willing to learn new
things not only about the processes themselves but about the people around you will help you be more
successful faster those are the portraits that I think are very important for scrum master to
become successful and to really enjoy this role as always I hope you learned something new about
the scrum master role and agile in general now I would like to hear from you think about that what
rates do you think can differentiate between an okay scrum master and animenews moments and do you
actually think the traits are more important than skills and knowledge in the scrum master role head
down to scrum master calm and with the comment so that we can have a great discussion about
awesome school masters thank you for watching I hope to see you next time Cheers and scram