Can you please activate your webcams?
Please choose a sticky note color to use for this meeting
Please take one of these smiley stickers and tell the others how you feel now
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Having worked in a lot of scrum teams in positions ranging from Jr Dev to CTO, I have become a huge proponent of scrum masters.
And in my experience a SM becomes a full time position at about 15 devs.
From all of the replies it was to me that a Scrum Master can be very useful in specific projects that involve interplay between many departments. But in reality it seems like it's a way for companies to avoid creating clear job requirements.
Def a way underrated comment.
Exactly right, scrummasters should be outside of the business and developer chain so they can uphold the process first and foremost. One of the phrases I hate the most is "we're in crunch time, we don't have time for process." No, that's when you need process the most! It doesn't matter if it's crunch time or whatever, PMs and business sometimes needs a reality check on what is possible and what isn't, and developers need someone in their corner that isn't also their manager.
Is why I joke that there are no SCRUM masters. Anecdotally, most of those I've met who were great at SCRUM mastering noped out of it within a year. It's like physics abhors a great SCRUM master.
I'm currently assigning all of those responsibilities to the development manager and to the development team leads. That's at least working without causing me to lose people.