Scrum master role in different situation

[Subrat]

Hello Dear,

Regarding Scrum i have question as a Scrum Master.

1. It was asked me in an interview that, Currently one project is running fine. It has on time delivery and of course there is no obligation of quality. Scrum team is working with same pace with same velocity. All are meeting deadline of their delivery.

As company is planning for Scrum they need a Scrum master.

As a Scrum master one joined the project and judged individual.

Please let me know what is the role of Scrum Master in this scenario as project doing superb with out Scrum.As there is chance of demotivation of team to implement Scrum in this situation. What a scrum master will do as a Scrum team in this situation

2. There is a project is running whose duration is 6months.1st 3months are over with 40% of delivery. What a scrum master will do to improve the delivery and complete the project on time.No change in deadline is allowed due to Royalty issue.

Please share your feedback on this.

Thanks in advance.

With regards

[Michael James]

Subrat,

A lot of people who have been doing this for a while aren’t enthusiastic about hypothetical questions.  It would be more interesting to me (and probably others) to hear your own views on these topics, and how they relate to our foundational description documents such as http://AgileManifesto.org , http://AgileManifesto.org/principles.html, http://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html , books by Scrum/Agile authors, etc.  If you haven’t read those, I’d encourage you to.

Some guidance about the role of the Scrum Master inside a bigger organization may be found here:

https://less.works/less/structure/scrummaster.html

Regarding deadlines, one of my favorite articles is now over ten years old:

http://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/jatmakingthedate/

—mj

(Michael)

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[Kevin Shine]

Hi Subrat

Meeting delivery is one thing, but is the team sacrificing any of these things to do that:

• Collective ownership and understanding of the code
• Peer reviews
• Code quality
• Automated tests 
• Stop, Check, Act, Do
• Able to take problems to company to help resolve them
• Building working software each sprint (Shippable software each sprint would be best)
• What is the teams definition of Done and Ready
• Do they have working agreements

If you answer yes to all of the above then maybe you dont need a SM, but in my experience a SM helps a team take their next step to being better. So the real question is do you want to improve the team. Basically a scrum master would probably look into the aspects I have described above. The SM basically has nothing to do with delivery on time, that is the teams responsibility. The SM helps the team improve as a team. 

No change in deadline allowed. Sounds like fixed time, fixed team size. If you also have fixed scope, you are more than likely sacrificing quality. You can read about this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle

I hope this helps.

Kevin

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[Tom Mellor]

Frankly, it seems you don't know much about Scrum and may not be ready to use it.  MJ has some excellent suggestions.  First, you need to figure out what it is you really want to do and what the teams really want to do.  Of course, the team can always go on the Death March.  The book by the same name was my second "required read" immediately after The Mythical Man Month.  

[Yves Hanoulle]

Hi Subrat,

May I ask what is your goal with asking this question here?

I'm asking because I want to be sure that the answers this mailing list is providing is helping you in achieving your goal.

Yves

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[Punita Dave]

Hi Subrat,

Interview questions are usually asked to throw interviewee off, so as to tell an experienced Scrum Master from inexperienced. Your scenarios seem like those questions. There are many issues with the way the questions are framed. If the team has matured in its practice of Scrum, then a Scrum Master is essentially there to help with any unknown one-off impediments that the team is not able to solve - and these are few. 

The second scenario is a classical project management iron triangle problem - fixed scope, fixed date, fixed cost. We all know from experience that these projects result in "end-game" situations where teams work long hours for months together to meet the project deadlines. 

If you an provide more context, it will help.

Regards,

Punita.