Rotating the ScrumMaster
Some teams that struggle with choosing the best ScrumMaster decide that an appropriate strategy is to rotate the role among all team members. I don’t advocate this, as I don’t think it demonstrates an appropriate respect for the challenges and significance of the role. In my family, we rotate who cleans the table and loads the dishwasher. Any of us can do that job. We do not, however, rotate who cooks dinner. My wife is a far better cook than anyone else in the family. We want the cooking to be the best it can be, so we don’t rotate that job. If you want your Scrum team to be the best it can be, I do not recommend that you make a habit of rotating the job of ScrumMaster.
However, there are some occasions when you may ...
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