Timeline for Daily standup vs. Micro-management
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| Jan 5, 2019 at 22:38 | comment | added | Luaan | @Darkwing I'm not saying you can't do stand-ups differently and having benefits from that (scrum certainly wasn't my first agile experience). Everyone here is talking about scrum masters and daily scrum stand-ups, not agile development methodologies in general. If you've got a manager leading a stand-up, he's not a scrum master and you're not doing scrum. That doesn't mean it's not going to work, it just means you're not doing scrum. Is scrum a good development approach? That's entirely orthogonal to the discussion we're having here. | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 18:08 | comment | added | Frank Hopkins | @Luaan and catfood Interestingly the only substantial benefit I've seen so far is exactly the communication from team to team leader and lower management and vice versa. And most stand ups developed into that direction as everyone involved agreed that this information flow is the important one that gives them a benefit. Which would inherently make it agile, as it is team driven like it is. So I'd be careful with the "sadly" and "not agile" just because it doesn't follow the scrum rule book. | |
| Jan 4, 2019 at 14:48 | comment | added | Luaan | @catfood Yes, most companies seem to be very keen on being "Agile", without actually trying to follow the guidelines. Needless to say, even the original paper on SCRUM for software development is very clear that under no circumstances should the scrum master be part of the management (among other things). Ideally, it's a dedicated role that does nothing else (on multiple teams if need be). It definitely isn't the product owner, the team leader, the project manager... the scrum master is there to guide the meetings (keep them on track) and be a cheerleader, he doesn't lead anything. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 23:07 | comment | added | Ian MacDonald | I’m now imagining a scrum master playing hide-and-seek during stand-ups. Thanks for that! :) | |
| Jan 2, 2019 at 22:19 | comment | added | Sarov | @davidbak A fair point. I added a paragraph. | |
| Jan 2, 2019 at 22:19 | history | edited | Sarov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 2, 2019 at 21:54 | comment | added | davidbak | Or sometimes the Scrum Master is in practice "standing in" for the management. | |
| Jan 2, 2019 at 19:19 | comment | added | catfood | Sadly, in my experience this is very unusual. The Project Manager or their manager is almost always serving as Scrum Master on projects I've been involved with. | |
| Jan 2, 2019 at 15:05 | history | answered | Sarov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |