Does one need to be a technical coder/tester to do SCRUM certification and join a team?
Hi,
Good Morning all. I am fairly new to this concept of Scrum and its affiliate- look alike certifications. I am a novice professional with experience spanning 9 years in the areas of Service Desk, IT Desktop and Hardware support, Incident Management and was fortunate to be associated with two different projects of application support.
I consider myself novice when it comes to writing code be it in any language and need your suggestions or help in letting me know if One has to be a good/intermediate developer to be a part of scrum team.
My key strengths are my communication skills, customer engagement skills, Product Up selling and Incident and Service Desk management.
Your inputs would be of great help as I want to shift gears and aspire to do scrum, but with multiple views/answers online when I checked for the above question.
I believe you being the masters would be able to throw more light enlighten me in the basic YES or NO answers of my doubts.
Thank you all and have a nice day.
Cheers
Siva
What role on a Scrum team would you see yourself in? Scrum Master, member of the Development Team, or Product Owner? How do your strengths apply to that specific role?
Scrum is often applied to software development tasks, but Scrum itself is just a project framework that empowers teams to be efficient, value-oriented, and transparent. Scrum teams are often cross trained, but specialized. So even if you do work on a software project, you could have a testing or documentation background, and pick up enough coding to support other members of the team with code reviews or pairwise programming, even if you're not doing most of the coding yourself.
Have you reviewed the Scrum Guide? What parts of the guide do you feel might be hindered by not having a strong coding background?