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Re:Just a Techie? – Techies, Devs, Boffins and Geeks by badpun on Saturday November 10, 2018 @04:56AM (#18420669)
The scrum masters feel 100% like a scam to me. The "work" they do is a complete joke - they basically have a couple of rigid scripted behaviours that could be performed by a bot or an intern - ask people about tickets' statuses, ask if a ticket cannot be split into smaller ones, ask people to do estimates, ask if X can help Y on task Z etc (all these questions are so basic that in general any experienced dev has already asked them themselves in their heads before coming to a standup). Also, from what I'm seeing, they "work" maybe for 1-2 hours a day. The only redeeming factor is that they usually make way less than a senior dev (at least here in Europe).

I suspect Scrum Masters will be completely purged out of the industry in the next 10-20 years, as the execs realise they provide negative value (sadly, they'll probably be replaced by some other fad role, and the same people who are scrum masters now will just retrain into that fad).

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Re:Just a Techie? – Techies, Devs, Boffins and Geeks by SoulMan on Saturday November 10, 2018 @12:04PM (#18422193)
The dedicated Scrum Masters I think already started to be diminishing, in my last two jobs usually one of the engineers (not too senior or junior but should be able to communicate well) is asked to take that role along with his usual 8 story point a week coding responsibility.

But unfortunately in this case above scripted behaviour is being shown by middle management (Engineering manager with not much coding background ). This is because they are mostly under fire if there is a "Spill Over" . The engineer playing scrum master role can easily get away with it because the probably did their part in the coding front and just threaten to step down from the role. But managers don't add much to anything else in the delivery process, so they are forced to be accountable for everything. (C'mmon we all know appraisals are also pretty much scripted) .

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Re:Just a Techie? – Techies, Devs, Boffins and Geeks by SoulMan on Saturday November 10, 2018 @12:07PM (#18422201)
BTW I hope they make less than senior dev. My company is not much transparent about it. I hope there is a portal to anonymously share this information. The glassdoor and payscale figures are very wide ranged to get a ballpark figure and average looks way off (I am making unusually high :D )
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