Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and how you became a Scrum Master?
- What does a healthy sprint look like to you, from planning to retrospective?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- How do you keep daily standups short and useful instead of turning into status theater?
- Which delivery metrics do you track, and how do you use them without making the team feel policed?
- How do you run a retrospective for a team that has stopped bringing up real problems?
- How do you work with a Product Owner whose backlog is vague or constantly reshuffled?
- What is your experience coordinating dependencies across multiple Scrum teams?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time you coached a team member or stakeholder who resisted agile ways of working.
- Describe a conflict inside a team you supported. How did you help resolve it?
- How do you influence decisions when you have no formal authority over anyone in the room?
Problem-solving / case
- A stakeholder keeps pushing urgent work into the sprint and the team's predictability is collapsing. What do you do?
- The team consistently commits to more than it delivers, sprint after sprint. How do you address it?
- Leadership asks you to prove the team's velocity should be higher. How do you respond?
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