The Interviewer wants to know about your experiences with Scrum master or with any other Scrum roles.

You can start with the most memorable experience of all. For example, if you want to talk about Scrum master experience then highlight your answer with the following points:

• How you noticed that all team buildings go through the cycles as mentioned by Bruce Tuckman model [FORMING – Storming – Norming – Performing and Adjourning]
• Mention about connecting with each team member at their level of needs using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• Talk about you Coached the team about Agile processes, mindset, values and workshops for prioritization and estimation
• Explain some personal experiences where you built an empowered team.

If you want to talk about your ROLE as a team member then include following points in your answer:

• How you learnt that Agile is a mindset and not just some guidelines to be followed
• The importance of sticking to 15 minutes scrum [how it improves efficiency and focus]
• Talk about the impact of TIME boxing in your project and how it made productivity the norm in the team
• Share your ideas about sprint retrospectives and how they enabled open communication within the team to improve collaboration
• Most importantly, talk about Scrum values [Focus, courage, commitment, openness and respect]

If you are planning to talk about your role as a PRODUCT owner, then your answer should include the following:

• Product owner is the representative of the customer within the Scrum team; so your role becomes important to highlight their challenges and needs
• A PO should be well versed in estimation and prioritization techniques so Planning poker, Kano analysis, MoSCoW, Monopoly money, Relative weighing, affinity estimation should be on your fingertips
• You should be able to focus on the importance of backlog grooming, continuously seeking FEEDBACK from customers and the engineering team.