Scrum Master Criticism
The cluster focuses on debates and criticisms of the Scrum Master role, common Scrum implementations as bureaucratic or ineffective, and arguments over whether poor experiences represent 'true' Scrum.
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You must not be doing scrum right if you feel about it that way
Scrum Masters are basically secretaries with more steps
what does scrum have to do with anything?
There is no manager role in scrum, so not sure if this has anything to do with scrum.
My team does SCRUM at work and almost none of these apply to us. Sounds like the author works in a bad company.
+1 for scrum master. Their mere existence is a strong signal that you are in an environment with a high tolerance for bureaucracy and low expectations for delivery.
Yep, Scrum can't fix bad management!
None of those things are part of scrum as described by the actual guide
Can we please call this the "No true Scrum Master" fallacy?
Have you heard about DarkScrum?The Agile manifesto doesn't talk about roles or how the process should be, but Scrum does it.Agile itself was introduced by bunch of software engineers came up with the Agile manifesto. It's simple, abstract, and effective. There are many successful tech companies that already have something more extensive than Agile. Agile manifesto is just a good starting point if you don't have anything in place.But somehow Scrum became the recipe to impl