CSM without experience is nothing. The only loss to Target is the cost of the class. What you need is experienced Scrum Masters. Good luck with that, now. Nobody wants to work at Target.
- Former TM with CSM and 8yrs Agile experience.
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Leadership is telling us that the cuts were not to reduce headcount, but to ensure people are in the right roles. I call total BS on that one especially with how they reshuffled teams after the layoff. I saw people with 5-6 years of technical experience laid off just to have someone with the same job title and no experience join their team.
147612 I doubt it. I suspect it's along the lines of having a certificate without any experience doesn't make you any more or less qualified for the job. I know several who got certificates thinking it would somehow protect them but we're still clueless when it came to being questioned on how to apply what they learned to changing how their team (or themselves) work in a different way. One just laughed about studying hard enough to pass but that she didn't need to worry about actually using it until after the cuts. Well ... hopefully she scrums herself alongs to a new job.
147591: so you are saying that you are more important than a scrum master?
Certified scrum master means as much as being a notary. Congratulations, you took a test.
I know many folks that were layer off that had degrees and were performing very well, coming out of their last review with excellent scores. I know many folks left with no degree and without scrum master certification or even agile / scrum experience. It's a guessing game as to how the decision was made. For those that took the survey ...if they wanted out they may have made sure the survey response made them a candidate.
those of us less are going to start feeling the impact very soon!
Who decides? That should be an easy one...somewhere along your career, you disagreed with your manager; this was an opportunity for you to embrace with your self-development but you chose not to; you probably, also made friends with people that really weren't appropriate (NE to EX) - you should never be seen together; you failed to meet the FFF standards - too fast, too fun and too friendly; Guests are told "Expect more! Pay less!" - well, this applies to the Team Members too - you're expected to do more work with less pay...and yes, it all comes back to you and your lack of self-development; your desire to have a work / life balance and wanting to stay within the box.
Selected by an algorithm. I believe it was based on tenure, pay grade, sex, qualifications/education... not sure if there were any other random criteria in there.
Agile = need for scrum Masters
To Anonymous147310 - that's a joke right?
Yeah it's ridiculous how many certified Scrum Masters they let go yesterday - seems kinda counter productive given the direction we are heading...
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