Scrum Master leaves the company

Everybody has been in the position to quit the company for several reasons but as Scrum Master you have to work (or at least it is my point of view) in Agile company. What does it mean? If you are working as Scrum Master you are the man in charge of Agile philosophy, it means you are an Agile evangelist so it is your duty (and this is mandatory) to improve Agile skills of each team member and of course this include the Product Owner as well.

Many times I found (and read) that a lot of companies adopted Scrum to follow the trend but they keep working as waterfall. For instance, managers decided when (and worse yet which features must be released without asking the opinion of the team) new product or new features must be delivered without involving the team. Later the team feel frustrated because they have to commit for all the stuff that managers has decided.

Scrum team

Other bad smell happens when managers took the decision to change one team member to other team without considering the opinion of Scrum Master, Product Owner or anything else.

Scrum Master knows every team member than any manager. Why? Because he is with them all the daylong so he has more knowledge about what will be the impact to change someone or remove a couple of team member in order to create a new team.

Even worse, many times I run into with small teams (i.e. one developer and one tester) and when I asked to the managers why you have this couple of guys to work alone in one project (it doesn’t matter is small or big project) I always got the same answer: They are focus only on this project. Yes, but you has never considered a team with such few guys.

Last but not least, if the company want to fill in some roles (i.e. Product Owner) with guys who are not the right you have to consider seriously to leave the company. Why? Because you were hired to help the company in the transition of Waterfall to Agile and if the company insisted to keep the status quo you are in the wrong place.!!!!!!