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Honestly, the part about agile I dislike the most is a dedicated scrum master role. They have very little to do if they aren't split between multiple teams and
by notus 7y ago
Honestly, the part about agile I dislike the most is a dedicated scrum master role. They have very little to do if they aren't split between multiple teams and instead try to come up with weird ways to add value which usually don't add any value. We had agile coaches at my company recently and it was one of the more painful experiences of my career. They would try to add all these different flavors of grooming, planning, standup, and retro that usually just led to developers being uncomfortable and wanting to work from home. I'm not saying agile doesn't work, but it doesn't need to be a full time job and take up that much of developers time and they sure as hell don't need to inflate the process and methodology just to feel better about themselves.
- tyingq 7y ago"the part about agile I dislike the most is a dedicated scrum master role." You probably haven't yet experienced SAFE / Scaled Agile at a non-tech Fortune 500. There's worse things people can slap an Agile tag on :)
- bamboozled 7y agoWe have this now, our scrum masters do everything now because they don’t really understand their role nor is it well defined. It’s hell. They are now delving into solutions architects and seem to be expert software engineers who ask questions like, “but isn’t that simple? How come it’s going to take so long” etc. Nightmare. I find it telling that I never met scrum masters who can actually tell you what they’re working on or what their backlog is. Funny that?
- notus 7y agoYeah I always see scrum masters as trying to play engineering manager or play at a role that isn't theirs nor are they qualified for. They also seem to think most engineers are stupid and can't even walk without hand holding.
- bamboozled 7y agoYup, also same experience, if someone asks for actual requirements or deadlines they think we are dumb.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Honestly, the part about agile I dislike the most is a dedicated scrum master role That's not a part about Agile, but about Scrum. Also, the “dedicated” part isn't even essential to Scrum. > We had agile coaches at my company recently and it was one of the more painful experiences of my career. They would try to add [...] That's a different issue than a dedicated ScrumMaster role, and anti-Agile, as team ownership of process is central to Agile. Consultants external to the team (whether internal to the org or external there, too) trying to impose process is the antithesis of Agile. There might be a role for coaching in Agile, but it certainly isn't process advocacy.
- notus 7y agoFair points, I tend to conflate agile and scrum since they seem to be coupled together. I get that the dedicated part isn't a requirement, it just seems to be part of most implementations I see. I guess my problem is more with people's implementations.