action #58499
Updated by okurz over 4 years ago
## Motivation
Within the tools team we want to improve our team work and efficiency working on our backlog. As discussed in the weekly tools team meeting 2019-10-22 we brought up the idea of a Scrum Master once again and decided to have one as an experiment for a limited time first and review after a trial period if we would like to proceed.
## Suggestions
* Appoint a Scrum Master
* okurz can help with the understanding of the role and processes
* Proposal by xiaojing_liu: Again have daily meetings, but voluntary, not necessarily every day
## Further details
We are clearly not running a Scrum process. Our process can be more likened to [Kanban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development)) where so far names for roles are less prescriptive. Potential alternative: [Lean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_software_development) . We could also see the role as "process guardian" but in a very helpful, positive, supportive manner, not "process police" ;) Also see https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-call-scrum-master-kanban-team-mike-longin/ which suggests "team lead" which unfortunately in our work context would lead to misunderstandings. https://leankanban.com/emerging-roles-in-kanban/ suggests "Service Delivery Manager", sounds a bit bulky to me (okurz).
okurz can recommend https://youtu.be/502ILHjX9EE as a very condensed introduction into what we need to care about.