Re: Scrum Master Shared?

Greetings All!

I agree with Mike. I have certainly seen this work in many different 
companies. The only
caveat is that the Scrum Master not simply hold status meetings but 
really listen to each
team and hear what problems he can solve as their "servant leader."



Linda



Mike Cohn wrote:

>Glen--
>
>You can definitely both share a Scrum Master across multiple teams and
>the Scrum Master can perform work (technical or otherwise) within a
>sprint.
>
>One of the beauties of Scrum is that it doesn't require a full-time
>project manager the way many other methodologies do (it may every now
>and then if there's a lot of weird stuff going on in the organization). 
>
>I will almost always take on programming tasks within a sprint and still
>have time to Scrum Master multiple projects.
>
>-Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: n1xf <n1xf@xxxxxxxxx> [mailto:n1xf@xxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 8:08 AM
>To: scrumdevelopment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [scrumdevelopment] Scrum Master Shared?
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>Hi all,
>
>I am in the process of researching Scrum for possible adoption on a 
>new project that we are starting.  We are an ISV with an existing 
>product line (for which we shall most likely implement Scrum).
>
>We are building a team to start this new development and are in 
>the "Chaos" of organization (oxymoron?) at this point.
>
>I am almost done reading Ken & Mike's Book ("Agile Software 
>Development with Scrum") and might be jumping the gun here, but have 
>a question regarding the Scrum Master.  We will most likely be 
>creating multiple Scrum teams (one for each major component 
>eventually).  We are not very Management heavy here and traditionally 
>like to dual role managers (Managers Manage AND Work).  It looks like 
>as the Scrum Master, it is best if the Scrum Master NOT perform any 
>of the actual work, that the work is performed by the team.  
>(By 'work' I mean software development, design, code, test, etc).
>
>My question is this:  If we have multiple teams, can we have 
>one "shared" Scrum Master?  The Scrum Master would be me, I'd rather 
>we have more people in the teams getting the work done, than managing 
>them.  I would ideally like to be able to be assigned "part time" to 
>the teams to help on the technical side.
>
>Has anyone ever tried this?  Have one "Shared" Scrum Master between 
>projects?
>
>Has anyone ever had a Scrum Master that was able to work on the team 
>at least part time?
>
>How has it worked out?
>
>I am sure to have a lot more questions as we move ahead.  Thanks in 
>advance as well as Happy Holidays. . .
>
>-=Glen=-
>
>Glen A. Sansoucie
>
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