A scrum master / agile coach interview kit for engineering hiring teams running retrospective facilitation, impediment-resolution, and team-coaching exercises in Taskade.
What's Included
- Retrospective Facilitation Roleplay: AI agent plays a fragmented team; candidate runs retro
- Impediment Resolution Case: Real cross-team blocker; candidate proposes resolution path
- Ceremony Craft Agent: Candidate's planning/standup/demo facilitation scored against best-practice
- Team-Coaching Scenario: Underperforming team; candidate proposes 90-day intervention
- Panel Aggregation: Engineering leader + product leader + senior scrum master scores
Why This Template Wins
- Facilitation craft testable: Strong scrum masters draw out quiet voices
- Impediment thinking reveals systemic vs symptomatic: Strong candidates see patterns
- Coaching plan predicts team-health impact
How to Use
- Clone this template into your Taskade workspace
- Customize team scenarios to your context
- Connect Jira, Linear, your ATS
- Train the Ceremony Craft Agent on your team norms
- Set up automation triggers for panel scheduling
FAQ
Does this work for scrum master vs agile coach hires?
Yes. Scrum master focus is single-team; agile coach focus is multi-team enablement.
Can the agent run multi-team coaching scenarios?
Yes. For agile-coach interviews, agent runs scenarios spanning multiple teams.
What plan supports an agile transformation hire?
Business ($25/mo) supports multi-team coordination data.
CTA
Try this template free in Taskade. For Jira setup, see /learn/automation/automations-execution. Pair with Scrum Master 30-60-90. Browse agile apps in the Community Gallery.