okay it sounds like scrum masters are only doing scrum and agile coaches
are doing broader work including other practices
no [Music]
hi it's darya here welcome to scrum mastered there are many roles and job positions associated with
agility and scrum of course on this channel i often talk about the role of the scrum master
there's also agile coach another very popular role in the organizations going through a transition
many scrum masters see agile coach as their logical career
progression so let's actually see what the difference is between a scrum master and an
agile coach and hopefully it can help you understand how to become one or the other
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but let's go back to the video and let's start with scrum master as we know this scrum master
is accountable for establishing scrum by helping everyone understand theory and practice both
within the organization and the scrum team we can say that these scrum masters work on three levels
the scrum team the product owner and the broader organization what does it actually mean well it
means that scrum masters are there to teach scrum to others regardless of where or what
position they are in the company an example can be running a training session for the scrum team
another example is running a training session for a group of managers as the
scrum master is there to help the product owner some work with the the whole product department
might be required to help them integrate some agile practices in how they work stakeholders
play an important role in scrum by being available to the team and providing valuable feedback
so the scrum master might need to do some stakeholder management and advisory along
the way to help implement scrum on all levels of the organization okay so now you might be thinking
wait a minute isn't it what an agile coach would do and you know i'd say that you are right
usually the role of the agile coach is focused on the work with higher hierarchy levels of the
organizations like stakeholders and managers ideal coaches focus on the implementation of agility on
the organizational levels through organizational processes and structures okay it sounds like scrum
masters are only doing scrum and agile coaches are doing broader work including other practices
no while scrum masters are accountable for the scrum implementation
they are also accountable for the effectiveness of the scrum team and it means that they need to have
a broader spectrum of knowledge and skills beyond pure scrum if they want to truly be successful
by now it seems like there are not that many differences between the two roles
maybe only the fact that the agile cultural is considered to be a higher level when we applied to
traditional hierarchy we have in organizations it means that scrum masters are below agile coaches
what it translates into is that scrum master role is being limited to the scrum team only
and the agile coach role is being focused on high level implementation only unfortunately that's
not what scrum intended this just separates the role in two parts making it much more difficult
to achieve real consistent progress in the agile transformation across all levels of the same time
here's what i like to say when i explain this concept and i know some people will hate me for
that agile coach is just another title for a scrum master who earns bigger salary this is the best
way to think about it if you want the organization to succeed with agile if you are a scrum master
limited to your scrum team you need to step up your game and start acting on higher levels of
the organization especially if you're looking to officially change your title to agile coach there
are lots of resources that can help you with that on my website namely my online course fundamentals
of agile coaching and my mentorship program go check them out to see if they are the right fit
for you i'm gonna put the link in the description i hope you learned something new today and if you
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