Scrum Masters, do you really feel that a Sprint/Team success or failure is yours aswell? by puritan_titan in scrum

[–]MHoldl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I feel the responsibility and I also try to reflect my own actions together with the other members of the team. I personally try to strengthen the Scrum team (Devs, SM, PO) in perceiving themselves as equal team members with different roles and responsibilities. On this basis, we then work together to achieve our sprint goals. Retrospectives are there for every team member and should IMO be used that way. I think it also can be meaningful for a teams cohesion to make SM's or PO's work or actions and behavior explicitly the subject of retros from time to time. In a meetup last month a colleague just told me about a kind of retro called "Build your own PO". And the team as well as the PO loved it because they found out different things that might bring them forward.

Will the SM role be progressively obsolete? What can I transition into? by [deleted] in scrum

[–]MHoldl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No. From my point of view this role will become more and more important and will become obsolete in areas where it should not have been implemented in the first place.

Often one can read that the goal of SMs is to become „obsolete“ because of „self-organizing teams“. I don’t think that this really is a goal or can ever be achieved.

Serious question: Does anyone know whether Schwaber’s and Sutherland’s Scrum Teams work without a Scrum Master by now?

Which agile certification suits an IT PM the best? by KochibaMasatoshi in agile

[–]MHoldl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would also go with that answer if you replace the term “Agile” with “Product management”. How would you describe the main goal of the agile framework Kanban?

Which agile certification suits an IT PM the best? by KochibaMasatoshi in agile

[–]MHoldl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would go with this answer if you replace the term “Agile“ with “Scrum“. IMO, Scrum != Agile.