Re: Scrum Master Shared?

Glen,

One of the primary goals of the first SCRUM was to reduce management 
overhead to less than 20% of time for a technical leader. The best 
(but not only) SCRUM Master is a technical leader who is coding with 
the troops 80% of the time (for the individual SCRUMs).

If you have a SCRUM of SCRUMs, the leader may have more of a 
management component, but even there 50% technical work enhances the 
ability of the leader to get close to the people doing the 
implementation.

Even a Senior VP who may not be coding can take on the project 
management function (it only takes a few minutes a day if you use the 
approach described at jeffsutherland.com/scrum), architecture design, 
direction, and analysis, oversight of the QA function and how it can 
add to the SCRUM process and be automated, R&D, evaluation of new 
tools and approaches, and so forth.

SCRUM was designed so that everyone can be doing development and 
there are no administrative tasks that take away from it. 60 seconds 
a day for developers and 10 minutes a day for the developer who is 
the project leader.

In some cases (Ken Schwaber will remember this) senior management was 
required to come to the SCRUM meeting to get any reporting at all. 
And when they came to the SCRUM, the team would often give them tasks 
that they were expected to deliver on.

Jeff Sutherland


-- In scrumdevelopment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "n1xf <n1xf@xxxx>" 
<n1xf@xxxx> wrote:
> 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. 


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