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  • Rather than plan, instruct, and direct, the leader of a Scrum team (called a ScrumMaster) facilitates, coaches, and leads.

    ENN.ie 2009

  • Personal opinion: While I agree with Scrum's thought leaders that traditional project management techniques need modification for Scrum to work effectively (the reason "project manager" changes to "ScrumMaster" and "business sponsor" changes to "product owner"), I don't agree that full migration to self-management is required or even desirable.

    Robert X. Cringely's blog 2009

  • The term "ScrumMaster" is really a misnomer because there's really nothing "master" about it.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • Personal opinion: While I agree with Scrum's thought leaders that traditional project management techniques need modification for Scrum to work effectively (the reason "project manager" changes to "ScrumMaster" and "business sponsor" changes to "product owner"), I don't agree that full migration to self-management is required or even desirable.

    Robert X. Cringely's blog 2009

  • Scrum makes it worse by ignoring important (but hard) agile engineering practices, and the Scrum Alliance makes it worse still with their armies of trainers -- some good, some not -- issuing dubious "ScrumMaster" certificates to people who demonstrated competence in connecting butt to chair for two days.

    doggdot.us 2008

  • If they don't, we hold the ScrumMaster accountable.

    Site Home Surf4Fun 2011

  • As the ScrumMaster, I've always done my best to keep the daily standups as efficient and productive as possible while within 15 minute window.

    Site Home Hamed Ahmadi 2011

  • The ScrumMaster teaches the Product Owner how to do his or her job.

    Site Home Surf4Fun 2011

  • The ScrumMaster works with the customers and management to identify and instantiate a Product Owner.

    Site Home Surf4Fun 2011

  • The company also offers training, including Certified ScrumMaster training, software development process improvement services, and an innovative community management approach to driving enterprise development success.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

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