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My first job was at a very large company where every team was required to have a Product Owner, Scrum Master, Business Analyst, QA and then however many devs we
by bird_monster 6y ago
My first job was at a very large company where every team was required to have a Product Owner, Scrum Master, Business Analyst, QA and then however many devs were on that project.
Our product owner broke her foot one weekend and wanted to sit during Monday's standup meeting. Our scrum master demanded she either stand or leave the meeting. Arguing ensued, loudly.
I bring this up only to say, our industry, while being very progressing in some areas, also happens to be extremely dogmatic about some ridiculous concepts without really understanding them.
- geofft 6y agoHm, is this illegal in the US? From a brief search, I think that since the 2008 amendments to the ADA, temporary but severe injuries give you protection under the ADA, and being able to sit during standup seems like an entirely reasonable accomodation.
- pubkraal 6y agoSometimes someone can also just be reasonable without it being legally mandated, methinks
- geofft 6y agoYes, that's obviously the preferred option, but in this particular case it seems like it didn't happen.
- bird_monster 6y agoThe devs were a part of the loud arguing, and eventually the SM just kinda pouted while the PO sat and we all just had a normal standup meeting.
- geocar 6y agoYour scrum master is a tool and a liability and if they worked for me this would result in a documented disciplinary action. Don’t tolerate power-trippers.
- bird_monster 6y agoUltimately his contract wasn't renewed because everyone had generally had enough of his schtick. Wrt that meeting though, several of the devs (including me) got pretty loud and ultimately our PO sat and our Scrum Master pouted.
- hackerm0nkey 6y agoooh yeah, the industry is dogmatic about ill thought about so called agile principles. Nobody dare to question them it baffles me. I've been consulting for over 10 years, how come I've never encountered a useful scrum master if they do exist
- geocar 6y agoWell for one, consultants are rarely brought in to working, well-functioning companies. Also, scrum (as in the dot-org) doesn’t do a great job of teaching management how to measure the performance of their team so it’s very easy to be bad at anything for a long time and never know it if you’re also bad at management. I find anything (including scrum) works pretty well if you send your management team out for training too, and don’t let them piss around with soft metrics.
- wdb 6y agoScrum master could be in a lot of trouble to demand this from a temporary disabled (broken foot) person