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I was something like that in a previous role. I had no official title, but I was a sort of JIRA secretary. I chased people around to gather clear requirements,
by nicbou 4y ago
I was something like that in a previous role. I had no official title, but I was a sort of JIRA secretary. I chased people around to gather clear requirements, and cut them into understandable tickets. I babysat tickets to completion and did QA as needed. I made meetings redundant by doing the backlog grooming and requirements gathering in parallel. I chased information on behalf of developers, and made sure they didn't get stuck. I attended meetings and passed the relevant bits to devs.
Basically, I kept the backlog in sync with reality, and vice versa. I was the facilitator I wish scrum masters would be.
However I also met my fair share of post it fetishists who don't seem to get much done. They seem like the priests of a modern religion, bringing their tabernacle filled with coloured markers and helping us pray to the productivity gods.