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Ask HN: Why the Scrum Scorn?
On another submission I made a joke about Scrum Masters and got 60+ upvotes in a matter of minutes. I has personal experience reasons for that joke. But in general I have experienced that Scrum Masters have surplanted SEO Managers and Marketeers as the laughing stock of the dev world? Why is this the case, and how do we fix it?
- legitster 7y agoThe whole driving mantra of being "agile" is less process and overhead. Scrum is presumably a method of achieving it. A scrum master is a full-time person dedicated to managing a process designed to eliminate process. Regardless of how effective or ineffective scrum or a scrum master can be in reality, the fact that the position even exists is ironic. And a good signal that most formal agile implementations are cargo cults.
- uberman 7y agoI think that many (at least I) go through the same or similar checkboxes every standup and often devolve into the minutia making the entire process a waste of time. In a standup, I want to know that the team and individual members are working on the right task(s) and if so, are we/they blocked by anything and if so, how can resources be reallocated to remove the block. That is it. I'm not interested in a pep-talk. New and existing tickets should be triaged in a different forum and the critical results raised in the standup. I don't want to review trivial tickets and I definitely don't want to wordsmith anything in the standup. I think many "scrum masters" let standups devolve into "time reserved for preparing for the standup".