How can so-called "scrum masters" unblock or coach anything for devs?
they advertise themselves the ability to "speed up team delivery", "eliminate technical roadblocks", "coach developers".
Now with the exception of SWEs who act as SM, how can a dude with a business degree and past experience as QA/BA/photographer/front desk reception can help, or even understand, anything technical?
My team has had 3 SMs in the past year. The only technical word they know is "C plus plus". They spend their time watching cat videos on youtube all day, and write bs motivational "leadership thoughts" blog posts in the internal Confluence.
What exactly do they "coach" devs? Dynamic programming or Haskell?
It's amazing that this Snake Oil charlatan as a profession has proliferated our industry and people just accept them just as the world accepted AIDS 50 years ago.
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Yes it's true, we even hire H1b for it. America really ran out of Scrum Masters so we need to import them.
Don’t get me wrong, it usually doesn’t work. But when it does it works well.
Scrum master? They own nothing and are responsible for nothing. As long as they fill up their buzzword quota for the day, they just spend the rest of their time on reddit youtube. The guy in my team even shares funny cat videos on our team chat 🤣🤣
Scrum is not the only scam going on. There’s new breed emerging, kanban. There’ll be more. It’s always like that. These people are not in tech only, they’re everywhere in business