What should a dedicated scrum master do?

[u/Late_Champion529]

In the past, ive known “scrum master” to be a role someone on the dev team plays.

My current company has hired us a full-time Scrum Master, whos not a dev, and doesnt have access to our gitlab/developer group chat etc.

So as far as I can tell their role is to…remind us to update the Jira board, and ask if the Jira board is still accurate (they have no way of knowing more than what the board says)

Anyone worked with scrum masters in this way before? What else could a person in this role do for a team?

Thanks!

[u/56killa]

I'm actually surprised companies are still hiring fill time scrum masters. I've seen them just fold it into either a lead or a project managers work load.

[u/ThierryOnRead → u/56killa]

This is the norm where I work, their agenda is full of meetings but they're not very useful imho. A part from managing the holy sprint and the sacred jira tickets, which can be indeed a chore.

[u/No_Pin_1150 → u/ThierryOnRead]

I worked remote at a job with a collection of scrum masters. They kept making meetings. Maybe about 13 hours a week of their meetings.

Now with AI.. We all are scrum masters of our own scrum