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[–] [email protected] 196 points 1 week ago (18 children)

All 3 companies he has “founded” are only 7 months old. Prior to that he has been mostly a scrum master and business analyst. He has no people management experience, no experience in establishing and executing strategies, and this post illustrates all of these short comings.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (9 children)

What is a scrum master? Like a rugby coach?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Scrum is an Agile project management methodology. Basically it centers around iterated short term "sprints" of about two weeks where team members have relative autonomy, and after which there are meetings to consider any emergent issues before committing to the next sprint. It's supposed to be more flexible and responsive than traditional "waterfall" project management, where an entire project is planned out in advance in a linear progression. Funnily enough it actually was named after the rugby term

It's very popular in software development in particular, since oftentimes development can be broken into modular tasks that can be worked on in parallel. Many argue that it's a fad that's been shoehorned into applications where it isn't useful, or that some practitioners focus so much on the structure that they bog down the process with endless meetings.

A scrum master is a specialist who helps an organization implement scrum.

[–] quafeinum 17 points 1 week ago

A scrum master is a fancy project manager. But legally you have to call them scrum masters or else their arms fall off

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