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After all, to be a level II SCRUM master, you don't even have to know how to programIndeed. I've noticed that folks who strongly pursue the Scrum Master role as a career either cannot program at all or are mediocre programmers. Which I'm fine with, BTW, because I like to see talented programmers writing code, not running stand-up meetings. The Scrum Master role is essentially a management/co-ordination/facilitation role requiring organizational and people skills, not technical ability. It can be a tough gig too, based on this excerpt from a Ken Schwaber talk:
The Scrum Master role reminds me of the Political commissar, commonly attached to military units during WWII. The political commissar role was not created to do any actual fighting, rather to teach ideology and exercise social and political control over the soldiers, to guard against anti-revolutionary thought and action. On the subject of non-programmers making big bucks in the software industry, I'm reminded of this little piece from Joel Spolsky: The whole fraud is only possible because performance metrics in knowledge organizations are completely trivial to game. The best part is that most management consultants, the stunningly good-looking, bright, earnest chipmunks with 4.0s in Russian Lit from Harvard who work for these companies, have absolutely no way of knowing this, so they can go through this whole exercise without even knowing that they're doing it! They get all the way through the 2-year associate program on their way to MBA school without even realizing that they haven't done a goddamn thing about productivity, all they've done is caused a fairly pointless transfer of wealth from ExxonMobilConoco to BainMcKinseyGartner's senior partners. And it's a lot of fun! First class flights to Houston and Oslo! Helping the world be more productive! Rock on, young stunningly-good-looking Management Consultant. In reply to Re^2: Selling swimsuits to a drowning man
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