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Originally Posted by 3d0g
Because Project Manager (which is all a scrum really is) is no longer "cool".  |
Good God, no.
Scrum Masters are absolutely NOT project managers. There really is no project manager role in Scrum at all. The Scrum Manager is simply responsible for making sure that the rules of Scrum are followed. His only other official role is to make sure that impediments that are raised during the daily stand-ups are cleared as quickly as possible. For that purpose alone, it often helps if the Scrum Master has some kind of managerial authority, but that's really it.
Scrum sounds like a simple idea, and it's easy to dismiss it as just the latest term for the same old project management, but there's something about it that is profoundly different from way things have always been done.