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I have a guy on my team with 'architect' in his title who asked me what a REST API is last month. The team quietly works around him, but the situation feels unsustainable. I wrote …

This month is the 25th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto. I've been building banking systems for 25 years, which means I watched the entire arc from the beginning. Wanted to get H…

I've been a software architect for 25 years, mostly in banking infrastructure. Something that's been bothering me and I wanted to get HN's perspective on. The Certified Scrum Maste…

His first week he sat in on a discussion about Kafka consumer group rebalancing causing production issues. Engineers were deep in partition strategies and offset management. Forty …

I've been working in bank tech for 25 years and this pattern just keeps repeating everywhere I go. Team sits down for sprint planning. Takes forever. Probably 4 hours by the time w…

Yeah in theory. Scrum Guide says it can be anyone, but when you hire a dedicated full-time Scrum Master... they need to justify existing. That's when it stops being team member hel…

Interesting strategy. I've thought about getting certified just to have the credibility. The irony would be certified Scrum Master saying "we don't need full ceremony right now" ha…

Early 2023s, small fintech startup. Deadline: 4 months to launch. Engineering team was literally 3 people. Me as architect, plus two devs. We had our shit together. Architecture de…

This is the part that gets me. When it works, it's just someone doing basic execution. When it doesn't, you're paying $120k for someone to send calendar invites and forget retros. …

The contrast you're describing is interesting, one great one who made things pleasant vs the rest being net-negative. I've been looking at what differentiates the good ones, and it…

That pattern of making the role redundant is interesting - I've been tracking this across companies and it seems pretty common. I analyzed time allocation data from Scrum Masters a…

What's been your experience? Have you seen Scrum Master positions add measurable value to delivery velocity and team satisfaction? Or have you found alternative models that work be…

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