Saturday, December 5, 2009

ScrumMasters pointless?

Scrum itself can be quite effective, but I'm starting to believe that a dedicated ScrumMaster role is pointless.

The most effective teams are best at learning agile techniques themselves and things like "conflict resolution". If you really need someone, rotate the role amongst team members.

The cynic in me thinks the role was promoted to help Scrum adoption and buy-in by the Project Management corps (who would otherwise feel threatened by Scrum/agile).

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