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Succeeding with Agile
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Succeeding with Agile

by Mike Cohn
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
15h 39m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Tech Leads as ScrumMasters

That we’d like ScrumMasters to have solid technical knowledge does not mean, however, that we simply anoint each team’s tech lead as its ScrumMaster. In fact, because Scrum teams are self-organizing, there should not be a company-designated role such as “tech lead.” However, when adopting Scrum it can be very tempting to take the former tech leads and search for equivalent roles where they can exert similar influence on the team and the product. Often this leads to designating tech leads as ScrumMasters. Although some tech leads make great ScrumMasters, never select someone as a ScrumMaster solely because of this, or any other, past role.

A few years ago I provided some initial training to a company, with the goal ...

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