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by jhwhite 2160 days ago
1. I'm a Scrum Master. 2. I really wasn't great at it. I loved it, only did it professionally for 2 years, but did side projects for years before I took an official job. I wish I was good enough to be productive in a professional environment.
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I'm an experience senior dev trying to transition to project management but it's difficult to find jobs right now that are entry level and software focused. Any suggestions? I feel like they just see my senior software engineering titles and think "no way this guy wants to be a PM for $60k a year"
> I'm a Scrum Master.

It's a the job title? I always considered Scrum Master more like an additional (sometimes rotating) responsibility of a team member, be it a dev or PM.

On the other hand, Scrum Coach is more like a job, or rather a contracting gig.

Some companies of a surprisingly small size even have fulltime agile coaches. I am yet to be convinced those roles are anything besides "management padding".

I saw them spend all their time to create reports no one consumed and do "illusion of activity" kind of stuff. They did retrospectives that never led to change, had to justify why development was behind schedule and find new and creative ways to make burn down charts look better than reality.