Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset

• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Scrum is an Agile project management methodology. Basically it centers around iterated short term “sprints” of about two weeks where team members have relative autonomy, and after which there are meetings to consider any emergent issues before committing to the next sprint. It’s supposed to be more flexible and responsive than traditional “waterfall” project management, where an entire project is planned out in advance in a linear progression. Funnily enough it actually was named after the rugby term

  It’s very popular in software development in particular, since oftentimes development can be broken into modular tasks that can be worked on in parallel. Many argue that it’s a fad that’s been shoehorned into applications where it isn’t useful, or that some practitioners focus so much on the structure that they big down the process with endless meetings.

  A scrum master is a specialist who helps an organization implement scrum.

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  • quafeinum@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A scrum master is a fancy project manager. But legally you have to call them scrum masters or else their arms fall off

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• baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  manager of bullshit that does little to no actual work

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• ApeNo1@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As others have replied yes the term was inspired by the rugby term but unlike a rugby coach who sets the teams strategy and game tactics, the scrum master in agile methodology is a tactical role that is focused on ensuring the team are observing agile ceremonies, sticking to their sprint commitments etc. What the team are doing and why is the responsibility of other roles like Product Managers who may also have Product Owners working closely with the teams whose responsibility is to have a prioritised backlog of items for the team to use as input to plan upcoming work. Usually there are higher level roles that set business level / market level strategy that gives guidance to Product Managers on where products should be focusing to meet specific business goals.

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  • Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Corporate America sounds like actual hell

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    • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Eh. It’s very much a case by case. It’s like having an assistant manager. Some of them you wonder what they even do, other ones you think the place would likely fall apart and burst into flames without them.

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• BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unsure if a joke or not, but in the event of a serious question:

  scrum masters are heads of scrum teams, their main purpose is facilitating good work conditions for the people. This generally means arranging and leading typical scrum meetings, helping workers do their job and shielding them from the Production Owner (the guy that decides what they are to make/deliver during a sprint . (sprints are 2-3 weeks long, where work is done accord the a selection at the start and interruptions are kept low during that time.)

  I don’t want to say that it’s an easy roles, but it’s more a management type of role than a worker role. In my team the scrum master is also doing development work, since scrum tasks alone aren’t that huge with the way we do things.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Since it seems you are unaware of the origin of the term:

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(rugby)

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    • BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks, I figured I was missing some connection.

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