A Day In The Life Of A Scrum Master And Program Manager At A Film Studio
A day for this Scrum Master/Program Management Office professional is highly variable, starting with a daily Scrum and including meetings across multiple time zones (the UK, Poland, and Los Angeles) due to the global nature of the project. The afternoons are dedicated to deliverables like budget analysis or leadership updates, showcasing the blend of collaborative and independent tasks inherent in the role, with "week to week [the] schedule [looking] very different" depending on the demands.
Project Management, Global Teamwork, Communication, Budgeting, Problem-Solving
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Miriam Holzman-Sharman
Scrum Master/Program Management Office
Film Studio
UCLA
Masters of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University (LA)
Communications
Arts, Entertainment & Media, Manufacturing, Operations & Supply Chain
Operations and Project Management
Video Highlights
1. The daily routine of a Scrum Master/Program Management Office professional is dynamic and varies.
2. A global team requires coordination across different time zones, necessitating flexibility and adaptability.
3. Responsibilities include facilitating daily Scrum meetings, managing budgets, preparing presentations, and troubleshooting various project-related issues. The work is a mix of collaborative meetings and independent tasks such as data analysis in Excel.
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What does a day in the life of a Scrum Master in a Program Management Office professional look like?
One of the things I really like about working on projects and programs is that your days aren't always the same. A lot of different things come up, but there are a few constants.
One of the fundamental working principles of Scrum is that every day your squad has a quick catch-up to make sure there's nothing blocking anyone. So, my day typically starts with the daily Scrum with the team.
Then I have other meetings. My project happens to be global, so a portion of the team is based in the United Kingdom and Poland, and another piece of the team is in Culver City. I happen to sit in the middle in Tennessee, in the central time zone.
My morning starts supporting any key meetings I have with my boss or anyone out of Europe or Poland. That's my morning. Then Los Angeles comes online, and we have meetings with them. Typically, my afternoons are quiet to work on any deliverables I have.
During the end of the quarter, there's a lot of time spent on the budget. If we've got a big leadership update coming up, I would be preparing a deck so that I can send it overnight. Then my manager in the UK can look and add and subtract as needed.
I might be scheduling meetings or just troubleshooting anything that comes up. So, there are a few constants in my week, and we have standing meetings. But week to week, my schedule can look very different. It's a function of how many people I need to connect with.
If one of my deliverables is to talk to all the squads about a specific topic, then I'll have a lot more meetings. If my deliverable is focused on the budget, that's more solitary, one-on-one work where I'm doing the analysis and the work in Excel.
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