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I'm working as a senior software developer at my company.
My seniors are asking me to take the scrum master role.
Is it good for my professional development.
Will I be cut off from the technologies that I work on now. I don't want to leave development. Can I do both at once?

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  • 1
    Depends how scrum works in your organization 😂
    In my project it takes no time from person who is leading meeting and I am in opinion that this role should traverse each week or month among team members.
  • 0
    It can work but it depends on how mature your company is with being agile. If you take it serious it will definitely take a big chunk of your time. I worked as scrum master and developed but at the end I wanted to code more so I finally changed jobs.
  • 1
    IMHO, scrum master only works well if it's the *only* thing you're doing - otherwise the scrum master duties will always get pushed to one side.

    ...and since it's not really a dev role as such, it's not necessarily a great career step if that's what you want your focus to be.
  • 1
    Depends on the size of the team and the nature of the project. In the past I've successfully combined being a Senior Developer and a Scrum Master on a relatively small team of four developers on an internal application.

    But for a large multi-discipline agile team for a public facing service I think it would make more sense to have a dedicated Scrum Master.

    You could reduce the burden by following a Kanban approach but still take some of the Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand ups, and regular show and tells and retrospectives. If that's suitable for your project.
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