The Path to Becoming a Scrum Master with Smita Govil
I wanted to bring to you conversations with people who are just getting started with their Scrum Master journey to share their struggles and achievements.
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I am honored that Smita Govil ( / smitagovil ) accepted my invitation and this is the conversation I had with her.
⭐️ Discussion groups 🗣
📌 Meetup.com
→ Bay Area Scrum Professionals
https://www.meetup.com/ScrumProfessio...
→ Agile Austin
https://www.meetup.com/AgileAustin/
→Advanced Scrum Case Study
https://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley...
⭐️ Education 🎓
📌 Agile MBA by Larry Apke
https://www.thejobhackers.org/partici...
📌 Scrum Master certification from Scrum.org
→ Scrum.org
https://www.scrum.org/professional-sc...
→ Udemy.com preparation course
https://www.udemy.com/course/scrum-ma...
⭐️ Job search 👩💻
📌 Helpful Engineering
https://helpfulengineering.org/
📌 Agile Job Search Group (AJS)
⭐️ Agile tools 🛠
📌 Jira
https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
📌 Trello
https://www.trello.com/
📌 Firepoker (Planning poker)
https://firepoker.io/#/
📌 Loom (screen recording software)
https://www.loom.com/screen-recorder
📌 SnagIt (screen recording software)
https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capt...
📌 Figma (interface design tool)
https://www.figma.com/
⭐️ Books 📚
📌 Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
📌 Scrum Mastery by Geoff Watts
⭐️ Timecodes ⭐️
00:00 - Introduction
00:38 - Who is Smita?
02:51 - Learning Scrum during the pandemic
04:23 - When did you decide to become a Scrum Master?
06:30 - Which path did you take?
09:50 - Book: Scrum Mastery by Geoff Watts
10:45 - Scrum/Agile groups & meet-ups
12:36 - Agile MBA
15:55 - Applying Scrum to job searching
18:08 - SM job through Helpful Engineering
23:04 - First days as a SM
28:12 - Current situation as SM
37:08 - Challenges as a SM
41:14 - Team structure
47:21 - SM or PO?
49:31 - What are your next steps?
52:47 - Conclusion