Where Do We Find Scrum Masters?

The Scrum Master is typically sourced from a leadership positions in the organization they are working in. This doesn’t have to be a management position, and in fact that is often a detriment since people sourced this way will often user their command and control power instead of influencing the Team.

Potential sources include:

Technical lead on the Team

Senior Team person

People manager

Project manager

A word of warning. Being a Scrum Master means that you also need to step away from being whatever it was you were before your were a Scrum Master. This is often hard to do. For example, if you used to be a Technical Lead on a Team, and now are a Scrum Master, then it will often seem like the easy thing to do is to save this technical issue, just like you used to do as a Technical Lead. This is a trap. Scrum Masters need to look at the whole Team as a system, not just the bits they already know well. While it might seem like the right thing to do, what it really means is that (in this case)

The Team is not learning how to solve these technical problems themselves.

Perhaps worse, we are ignoring other aspects of the Team where there are in fact issues to address.