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> Yet a nationally representative study of 1,000 British adults, with which I assisted, found that 75% of British adults thought “scrum master” was a fake job t
by pluma 9y ago
> Yet a nationally representative study of 1,000 British adults, with which I assisted, found that 75% of British adults thought “scrum master” was a fake job title, or didn’t know for sure if it was real.
I think this bit misses the point. "Scrum master" is pretty descriptive and explicit if you are the least bit familiar with Scrum methodology. Unlike the other examples which are intentionally obscure and playful, this one is only obscure if you're unfamiliar with the specific industry.
I'm fairly certain there are perfectly legitimate job titles in other industries "75% of British adults" aren't familiar with. That's okay, they don't have to be.
If it was "75% of British technical project managers", I would be far more concerned. A job opening for a "Scrum master" likely isn't an entry level position for someone with no prior knowledge of Scrum -- and if that career path is interesting to you, you'll likely already know what Scrum is.
- sho 9y agoTo be fair, I'm in tech, have known actual "scrum masters", and still don't think it's a real job title.
- negativ0 9y agoyeah, i still dont understand, in my company we have 2 scrum masters, and the only thing i can see they do is sending 2 emails a week and coding like juniors.
- mpfundstein 9y agoThey shouldnt code at all and instead be busy with coaching your team and the enterprise in practicing proper scrum
- honestoHeminway 9y agoelse they be never true scottsman.
- lowmagnet 9y agoIt's more like ”JIRA wrangler“ at most places I've worked. We just tools so heavy that managing them is a full-time job. Bugzilla never had this problem.
- davnicwil 9y agoWhat surprised me more was that he also describes "full stack developer" as an obscure technical job title and then goes on to imply that such obscure technical job titles could dissuade people from applying because the title doesn't communicate what the job entails. I understand the point on some level, but really, you probably don't want people applying for a full stack dev role who are put off by the obscurity of that job title..
- oddsinfinity 9y agoThey are real scrumbags
- saurik 9y agoYeah... it's like: "go watch a bunch of movie credits and try to tell me what even a handful of the infinite number of weirdly specific and awkwardly named jobs actually do"; I mean... "best boy grip"? http://mentalfloss.com/article/50626/11-strange-movie-job-titles—explained http://mentalfloss.com/article/50626/11-strange-movie-job-ti...
- pilsetnieks 9y agoThat's not the main point of the article though. I assume everyone in the industry knows what a best boy grip is; the problem is when the position for best boy grip is advertised as Lightning-and-Thunder Master Ninja or Rockstar Illumination Guru.
- loktarogar 9y agothat's not the point of the quoted paragraph though. this article makes at least two points: non-descriptive titles are ridiculous to people who would apply to them, and descriptive titles are ridiculous to people who would never apply to them
- BrandoElFollito 9y agoAgreed. To me a "churn analyst" is meaningless. So are other titles in Finznce, Legal or HR. I guess we just have more of them in tech, no matter how you think hard, a "full stack dev" is not something you can guess if someone has not explained it to you.
- thearn4 9y agoScrum master feels more like a role rather than a job title. Like one thing that you do among other things.