Should the Scrum Master and Scrum Coach names be swapped?

Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The Scrum Master is a servant leader and serves predominantly the scrum team and sometimes the wider organization. The Scrum Coach deals with multiple teams and the wider organization on a more frequent basis while possessing more advanced skills and experience than the Scrum Master. Given that the Scrum Coach is more of a "Master" of Scrum than the Scrum Master, the term "Master" is an oxymoron within the Scrum Team, and the term "Coach" would probably be more appealing to autonomous and self-organizing teams, shouldn't the role names be swapped?

Posted: Jan 11, 2018 5:36 AM

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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jan 11, 2018 9:12 PM

Replying to Deepesh Rammoorthy

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Can I be bold and called anyone who has a Scrum Title as "Project Management Adversary " ! :)

haha you might start a riot ;-)

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1 reply by Kiron Bondale

Jan 12, 2018 8:24 AM

Kiron Bondale

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I might just edit that to "Project Manager Adversary" :-)

Whether they like it or not, Scrum Masters will be using some PM practices and competencies.

Perhaps we need to flip around that old cliché with a new spin: don't hate the game, hate the player!

Kiron

Posted: Jan 12, 2018 12:29 AM

Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada

Jan 12, 2018 12:29 AM

Replying to Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD

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haha you might start a riot ;-)

Posted: Jan 12, 2018 8:24 AM

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