In Technology, is scrum master/ kanban lead a secure job title to move?
Saul mentioned to upskill and move towards secure job title?
And also many teams are making a delivery team member play kanban lead role ( QA or developer conducting daily standup)
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Scrum master or Kanban Lead, depending on what your team has, is definitely the hot title of the day. They come and go.
On the other hand, you have to constantly reinvent yourself to get buy as these things happen. I had a PMP too and now that gets me exactly squat.
Where is the Patch Master??
@qcm+19Y71tqI - you are a ‘senior level ‘ PM making ONlY 130K? A Java developer with 5 years experience makes that kind of money. I think you just contradicted yourself. Your own example is illustrative of the point being made about PMs being a dying breed. In the agile world they will be dead as a dodo.
Raj in India who speaks the worst broken English and can write a line of code is worth 100x Saul, because he adds value. Why do you think Microsoft and Facebook pay technical staff 500K+ a year and make billions in profit. Wells Fargo almost goes out their way to insult the people adding value.
Do you even want to be a Scrum Master, or know what one does? No job is going to be secure for you if you can’t do it or don’t want to.
Do you want to work with the other people responding to your question who think your future job is worthless? I can tell you with 100% certainty you will end up doing so, regardless of the rest of the people on your team who potentially see the value.
At least one person seems to think that any non development role is worth zero. Welp, I am a well-certified and highly educated senior level PM and I make $130,000 in cash comp, so talk is cheap, but my balances are healthy.
You can't run a project without have some technical knowledge, that's why Wells Fargo has failed. Even with so called technical staff, there's maybe 1 in 20 who are doing 80% of the work, about 1 in 5 are doing the other 20% of the work and other staff are just worthless. The ones doing the work are also looking to find a better job at a better firm. Saul and his fancy glasses aren't moving the company toward change.
Every place is doing Agile using Jira and Confkuence as tools as projects now are iterative as development and IT functions are moving from traditional Waterfall to Agile SDLC and DevSecOps. If you have experience as a program or project manager you can take in this role with or without having certifications buy at least training on Scrum, Agile, and Jira and Confluence
This is the way it works..
Management - the most technically clueless person in the room, they just want the work done. If they lose their job what are they worth in the open market? not much, maybe a little
Scrum Master, the PO, the Project Manager: hired agents for harassment, also with no technical knowledge, setup lots of pointless meetings, make a show of things. Its easy to find headcount and interchange people, what's that worth in the open market- not much or next to zero
Doers - have the technical knowledge and actually do the work. Every company out there wants these people. On the open market? these people can find a new home quickly. WF management loves to hire individuals that need a visa in this bucket. Since management has no power in this type of situation, a doer holds the power, they use the visa as leverage and control.
That is a Project coordinator job. Moving tiles on a board and updating status is not a pure tech function. If management loses interest in agile, there goes this ‘Job’. Sorry to be so blunt. I once had a PMP certification and was a good project manager (so they said). . The money was good and I got several projects . And then the financial crisis came and my contracts ended. Today I am in control and happier (though life could be better ).
The better and more stable job is to go to development , if you can get that . Or even tech support, information security, or tech control. The rest of the jobs may be short lived .