Friday, October 29, 2010

Scrum doesn’t fully work without the Scrum Master

You can be an agile team, follow the processes and practices, but if there isn't someone *other than* the dev lead to do the planning and communicating, your project will fail.

One person cannot do everything. They cannot be both the developer, team lead, project manager, business analyst, and scrum master. It just doesn't work. There are too many hats, too many roles, conflicting priorities.

The Scrum Master (or someone other than the people on the hook for deliver and estimates) has to watch the budget and hours and estimates, etc.

Without this person the project and team will fail.

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