Hi Justin,
Many thanks for your feedback, and your kind words.
It can be challenging to switch into a Scrum Master role! When you are used to building things, the transition to being the one who facilitates things can jar a little! It was a tough decision for me to switch roles from developer to scrum master, I agonised for a long time over whether I was making the right choice.
I remember a distinction made by a colleague that helped me in my transition. It was a question: do you want to make great things, or make things great? If the answer is the latter, then that can be a good mission for a scrum master.
It might help to check out Geoff Watts’ video on Impostor Syndrome:
Also, it helped me a lot to engage with the community and learn more about what options were open in the role of scrum master to add value. There is a huge wealth of support resources out there. Check out this post for example:
In addition, it might be worth considering your own options for mentoring. There are a lot of folks out there willing to provide mentoring, and a 45-minute chat once a month can rejuvenate your ideas and provide a lot of motivation.
In relation to the team understanding your commitment to them, have you thought about discussing this with them? Getting feedback from the team might even change your perspective on your own situtation.
Perhaps there could also be an issue with the team’s understanding of the scrum master role? There are workshops out there that can help a team understand the roles better, for example Adam Weisbart’s Build Your Own Scrum could be one option: https://weisbart.com/byos
Best of luck with your continued development in the scrum master role! If I can help with a post on any topic that is of interest to you, feel free to let me know!
Thanks, and keep on keeping on!
Paddy
