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NO. It's a part of the brilliant Scrum scam. Basically, Scrum mandated that every office has its priests (Scrum masters), who make sure the Scrum does die off o
by badpun 4y ago
NO. It's a part of the brilliant Scrum scam. Basically, Scrum mandated that every office has its priests (Scrum masters), who make sure the Scrum does die off or gets replaced by something else. These people usually are useless and owe their entire salaries to propagating the Scrum/Agile ideas, so they do it with lots of conviction. In return, they have to get certified with the Scrum organization (paid for by the employers), which brings revenues to the original authors of the scam.
The fact that most companies didn't get a whiff of it yet and are still paying salaries to people who have basically net-negative impact [1] tells you a lot about how much the business world actually cares about efficiency.
[1] Not only they don't contribute, they are also often demoralising to people on the team who have to bust their ass to earn a salary. A scrum master even told me in confidence once that he considered becoming a developer as it'd probably mean more money - but, he went against it, as it'd mean actually having to do work...
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y ago> These people usually are useless and owe their entire salaries to propagating the Scrum/Agile ideas, so they do it with lots of conviction. I like to give the benefit of the doubt but it's still hard for me to say this is overly cynical. > running a 15-minute Daily Standup that typically goes 30 minutes Imagine if your most marketable skill is knowledge of a certain process and you don't even get that right. It's not hard to believe someone would insist overmuch on their One True Way.
- ActorNightly 4y agoSort of. It is not so much as a scam as a business opportunity that got filled because management tends to be non technical. If you have technical managers who actually can write documents or technical program managers/system engineers who can talk with customers in more detail, you don't need scrum or scrum masters. Non technical managers are the ones that are actually waste time being essentially human APIs between product managers and developers, and use scrum masters to actually do the "engineering" with getting work planned, done, and tracked.
- badpun 4y ago> nd use scrum masters to actually do the "engineering" with getting work planned, done, and tracked. I've yet to see scrum masters do that though. In all of the many teams I've worked at, the tasks you list were performed by product manager. Scrum master's only responsibility was organizing the retrospective. Other than that, they just hang on all our calls and contribute nothing at all.
- ResearchCode 4y agoIt's like the management consulting scam but with absolutely none of the prestige.