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Highly-Paid Developers As ScrumMasters?
An anonymous reader writes 'At my company, our mis-implementation of Agile includes the employment of some of our most highly-paid, principal engineers as ScrumMasters. This has effectively resulted in a loss of those engineering functions as these engineers now dedicate their time to ScrumMastery. Furthermore, the ScrumMasters either cannot or do not separate their roles as Team Leads with those of ScrumMastery and — worse — seem to be completely unaware that this poor implementation of Agile development is harmful to our velocity. To date, I have chalked this up to poor leadership, a general lack of understanding of Agile, and an inability to change from traditional roles left over from the waterfall development mode. In addition, I have contended that, for a given Scrum Team, the role of ScrumMaster should be filled by someone of lower impact, such as an intern brought in specifically for that purpose. But I would like to put the questions to Slashdotters as to whether they have seen these same transitional difficulties, what the results have been at their respective companies, or whether they just plain disagree with my assertion that principal engineers should not be relegated to the roles of ScrumMasters.'
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1) what is Agile??
2) Who is a Scrummaster??
sounds like a player in a game like DoTA or WoW etc.
Agile does not work, it is a way to pretend having a method behind the fact that after each 3 week "sprint" you are between one and four week late.
Inherently Agile is supposed to enable "small" teams, and be "cheap" but has too many roles to implement in a small team...
I you see a "black belt agile scrummaster" check your wallet and run away.
"agile scrum diddle doo" -- Really? How how's that helpful?
Doing away with Agile in an Agile shop is not an option. Turning your senior coders into scrum masters is a poor idea because if senior coders wanted to deal with people they'd be managers. Let the code grunts remain in their trenches and put in ex-product managers on as scrum masters. Scrum masters should be the shepards for the sheep and keep the marketing and UI trolls away.
Bottom line to the original poster: If you don't like your "Agile" environment get the f* out! No one owes you a job at their company.
Anonymous Coward, you obviously are the type that does what he/she wants regardless of a company's direction. People like you are the morons that make u-turns on intersections that don't allow it. You are probably one of the a*holes that takes two parking spots in the lot. I could go on forever with examples but WE know what type of person you are so enjoy your life of solitude, you ugly, little person.
Lots of wuv!