A month or so back, a recruitment agency contacted me and asked if they could put my CV forward for a Scrum role at a large client. Apparently the client was about to kick off a project and wanted it to be agile. I said yes and then never heard anything for 2 weeks. I chased the agency up for some news or feedback and was told:
The client is debating whether it needs a Project Manager with Scrum experience or a Scrum Master.
I responded:
Sounds like the typical 'corporate agile' rubbish that stems from a lack of understanding.
The agent replied:
I think they'd be the first to admit they are lacking in understanding, which is why they want to hire external expertise.
Let me get this straight. A corporate organisation wants a project to be agile, to follow Scrum specifically. They know they know very little about Scrum and they have the intelligence to decide they need to hire someone who does. Bravo! So, if they know they don't know about Scrum why are they debating whether they need a Project Manager with Scrum experience or a Scrum Master?
I laugh at this kind of corporate idiocy and amateurism. It's ignorance with arrogance and it's dangerous because when it fails (not if) we'll all get tarred with the same brush. Scrum doesn't work without a Scrum Master, stupid! It does work without a Project manager.
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