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Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches – You got the power!

The market is tough for Scrum Masters and agile coaches. Chris lists the skills you already have in abundance, and why they are enough to make your own path.

Chris Bexon · · 1 min read

I know the market is tough right now, and this is a massive opportunity for you

Scrum Masters and agile coaches have the following skills in abundance. You have everything you need to deal with this and flourish.

  • You are a champion of business agility.
  • You are a skilled facilitator.
  • You are a skilled professional coach who sees teams as interconnected relationships, and who coaches systems to be more effective together.
  • You are a skilled mentor.
  • You are a skilled teacher.
  • You are a systems thinker.
  • You live and breathe working with complexity and risk, through empiricism.
  • You are the entrepreneur's coach.
  • You are an expert in value-driven development.
  • You are an expert in helping organisations orientate around products and services.
  • You are a learning machine, taking every opportunity to grow personally and professionally and to practise your craft.
  • You are an expert in eliminating decision-making latency and dependencies.
  • You have vast experience of creating products and services.
  • You are skilled at helping teams discover the tools, practices and frameworks that make them more effective.
  • You have mentored entrepreneurs to create highly valuable products and services.

Many companies have attempted an agile transformation and had some success. Most kept their project and programme management structures rather than achieving true business agility and simplification through product orientation. The result has been little value realised.

You have all the skills and experience needed to innovate and create your own path. You have everything you need to create your own products and services based on what the market needs today.

Be a Scrum Master. Be an agile coach. Inspect and adapt.

If you do not yet feel you can operate effectively in some of the skills above, those are great areas to develop. Get in touch if you want to work on any of them with us.