Background: We are trying to adopt Scrum in my current development team. One of the action items is to hire a Scrum Master to help us in the Scrum implementation. But after I came across with this article I'm beginning to have a second thoughts on hiring a Scrum Master.

http://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/scrum-master-role-wasted-human-potential/

Is hiring a Scrum Master just a waste of money?