The ScrumMaster Maturity Model

This post shortly introduces the “Scrum Master Maturity Model”, which describes three levels of maturity a ScrumMaster can reach, before the “Agile Coach” or “Scrum Sensei” is reached.

The Scrum Guy: has rudimentary ScrumMaster skills and very small experience with scrum, which results into low-performing and mostly disoriented teams. The Scrum Guy acts as the team secretary, just scheduling meetings and listing impediments.

The Scrum Mom: is protective towards her teams like a mother for her children. Teams with a Scrum Mom can be well functional, but Scrum Moms miss to challenge their teams, which often leads to stagnation. She doesn’t really trust the team and still bossy.

The True ScrumMaster: The true scrum master coaches, leads and develops high-performance teams that are able to continuously improve, learn and to be self-organized. She addresses conflicts, challenges the team but in the same time encouraging and motivating people in the team.

The ScrumMaster Maturity model is of high practical value, because it gives us a visual representation of the actual ScrumMaster role we can find in our companies. In fact I have met a lot of people defining themselves as “ScrumMasters” or “Agile/Lean coaches” that are practically acting as Scrum Guys or Scrum Moms, but rare persons being practically really “The True ScrumMaster”. Organizations need true ScrumMasters and no other strange figures, ruining or empting the reputation of this challenging role.

Where are you located, considering this model?

References

[www] Medinilla A. http://www.slideshare.net/proyectalis/developing-scrum-masters