No company has scrum masters. Why we still have them?
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@1cbt+1vAk7EEV - is there any update on this?
We work off project plans because that is what the execs want to see. Then we create Jira stories so we can pretend to be “agile” not waterfall.
They are pointless. PO and dev team can run the calls and push jira buttons
Like Metallica says… Scrum master of puppets is pulling the strings/Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams/Blinded by me you can’t see a thing…
Explains Agile perfectly here at WF
Most SMs were forced into the role and lack training or understanding of the job. They are just placeholders to make the team composition metric.
Scrum Master are on their way out. Senior leadership has all but said this directly.
@jbs+1vAk7EEV ditto. There are too many fiefdoms. How many CIOs does WF have? And do they know their true products and services? I did not see any process modeling, OOD, TDT -- heck not much testing at all. But I hear that in India they know how to do all this stuff....
NAILED IT!
WF didn't organize correctly to take advantage of Agile. Product Managers were put in to try and do that but then we identified products wrong. To make Agile work we have to be tech organized along true products and services like car loans and brokerage accounts or customer connections and branch engagement. The technology teams would be aligned to support everything about that product or service not by traditional software lines. If I had to make a change to auto loan software that included online banking changes and general ledger my team would make ALL of the changes not queue up in several teams backlog then go live at the time of the slowest turtle. Scrum masters should work like operations directors in the movies. They take input from the Exec director, director, film director, producer and turn it into action. We turned scrum masters into cheerleaders and time trackers. Engaging the right resources and removing barriers rarely happens. Extensive reporting and useless meetings do.
Scaled agile is even d-mber. It's just waterfall in disguise.
We are moving it all over to SAFe, LeSS, XP, Crystal, or Nexus. These are the future. :)
And they act like they are the best thing ever happened to Wells. WF is so pathetic
Well scrum has been around for over 20 years and we've only been doing it for a few years now. So figure we got at least 15 years of having Scrum Masters before we're ready to move to the next trend that's no longer a trend.
F ‘em