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Re:We cancelled standups and let the team build by geocar on Friday September 25, 2020 @03:46AM (#24587554)
Your scrum master is a tool and a liability and if they worked for me this would result in a documented disciplinary action.

Don’t tolerate power-trippers.

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Re:We cancelled standups and let the team build by bird_monster on Friday September 25, 2020 @01:11PM (#24591911)
Ultimately his contract wasn't renewed because everyone had generally had enough of his schtick.

Wrt that meeting though, several of the devs (including me) got pretty loud and ultimately our PO sat and our Scrum Master pouted.

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Re:We cancelled standups and let the team build by hackerm0nkey on Friday September 25, 2020 @08:58PM (#24595548)
ooh yeah, the industry is dogmatic about ill thought about so called agile principles. Nobody dare to question them it baffles me.

I've been consulting for over 10 years, how come I've never encountered a useful scrum master if they do exist

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Re:We cancelled standups and let the team build by geocar on Saturday September 26, 2020 @01:11AM (#24596600)
Well for one, consultants are rarely brought in to working, well-functioning companies.

Also, scrum (as in the dot-org) doesn’t do a great job of teaching management how to measure the performance of their team so it’s very easy to be bad at anything for a long time and never know it if you’re also bad at management.

I find anything (including scrum) works pretty well if you send your management team out for training too, and don’t let them piss around with soft metrics.

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