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It sounds like you are doing scrum by the book, focusing on following the processes rather than building a team that is delivering the best software possible. … Scrum is an easy way to get a team understanding and doing agile development, but maybe the team would work better using Kanban, or some other approach. …

Often, a few people are identified as the main 'time bandits', and having a chat with them explaining why they should come to the Scrum Master rather than developers directly can help with this. …

When I was in this position, I quit... unfortunately when the problems are outside the team, all that happens is the team complains to the scrum master, the scrum master complains to the manager, and nothing … Anecdotally, the product that I left that was having this issue reduced their dev team from approximately 80 to a single scrum team of 8 to survive. …

See a very similar question I asked: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/213395/what-are-the-negatives-of-development-managers-as-scrum-masters If not handled very carefully, the authority … can get in the way of the honesty and transparency that Scrum relies on. …

I am an Application Development Manager in this position, and it works excellently for my team. The main thing is the difference in mindset from traditional management. I have the benefit of buildin …

A scrum master is an inherently technical role and developers (and their managers, one would presume) are the people you will be working with. … As an aside, I am not saying a scrum master is a manager, but does face similar challenges around people, motivation etc. …

Facing similar things in the past I combined a few solutions: Try to get all the non-urgent work into the backlog, so that it is visible and foretasted for the team. Try to get an idea of how much u …

important part - the underlying development standards that Scrum was built and relies on. … Your psychology background would probably make you better than most Scrum Masters at really getting to the bottom of deep, hidden issues that many Scrum Masters might miss, so you may want to try to specialise …

Often these types of stories come from high level stakeholders - in our case it was the CEO complaining the site is too slow. He was asking for sub-second performance, which was not realistic due to …

A better solution would be setting up a webcam he can connect to at any time - then he can see what is going on and it doesn't make any extra work for anyone in the team. I can't see it doing any har …

You could approach this from starting with something similar to Scrum and remove the time boxing if this is where your experience lies, but you will need to consider how you will ensure to progress on …

If all you are looking for is a burn down chart to measure progress I would suggest breaking each section into tasks, and not worrying about stories. Each of these tasks can be estimated in hours, an …

A good Scrum Master isn't just 'following the book' of scrum, but is instilling the agile principles. … I'd much rather have an Agile Coach acting as a Scrum Master for a while, than someone who spent a day or two becoming a Certified Scrum Master restraining a team to using scrum for a long period of time …

I think there are different answers to this question, depending on context. CodeGnome has covered "out of sprint" high level scope well - basically add items to the backlog and either extend the pro …