How the next Scrum Masters generation will look like?

These days, I got an email from Scrum Alliance requesting a survey for the next CSM Exams.

It was mentioned in the email that a job analysis was conducted to identify the necessary knowledge and cognitive skills to be tested as the last step in earning the CSM certification.

Appreciating that the Scrum Alliance guys are collecting feedback for the next exams and very interested of this, I took the survey with the thought that my opinion will count somewhere when structuring the next CSM exams and why not, in preparing the future CSM training's agenda.

The survey contained questions based on the following domains:
- Scrum and Agile
- Scrum Theory
- Scrum Values
- Scrum Team
- Scrum Master
- Scrum Events
- Scrum Artifacts
- Allocation - how I would allocate the importance of the above domains

While doing the survey and commenting my responses, I was thinking that somehow this will lead to a next CSM certifications generation and implicitly to a next Scrum Masters generation.

And this was the moment when I asked myself: HOW THE NEXT SCRUM MASTERS GENERATION WILL LOOK LIKE?

Hard to say, as the new generation is called Millennials and the workplace attitudes, according to Wikipedia, stresses out: emphasize on producing meaningful work, finding creative ways of doing things and having a preference for immediate feedback. Also it is mentioned that they are not satisfied with remaining for a long period of time at the same job so their career path becomes more dynamic and less predictable.

I notice a trend in approaching the Scrum Master position by young persons or by no-experience-in-the-field persons. I don't say that this is a bad thing, it is actually a very courageous attitude.
But sometimes, this role is misunderstood and it is a long way from a new joiner to achieve a good understanding and proven experience of a good Scrum Master.

So, I don't know exactly how the next Scrum Masters generation will look like but I know what is needed from young persons to succeed with Agile:
- good communication skills
- good interpersonal skills being able to work with diverse personality types
- courage to challenge situations with a continuous improvement attitude
- team player and proactive person
- good understanding of what Agile is, why we are using Agile and which are the benefits

Besides, what I think that would help for the new joiners, is to have a mentor or someone from who they can learn, be inspired, address questions and ask for feedback.
Of course, also a team to start with, but constantly trying to understand and apply the Agile mindset rather than just doing stuff because someone requests it or because it is just mentioned 'in the book'.

How do you think that the next Scrum Masters generation will look like?

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