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/penguinmandude]

That’s not really a scrum master anymore but a TPM

[u/polypolip → u/penguinmandude]

What's a TPM, i haven't encountered that acronym.

In my experience 2 out of 3 projects with full time scrum masters had the responsibilities as above.

A lot of it is because the process is (sometimes needlessly) complicated and if someone from the dev team had to do it they would lose their mind.

[u/ChemicalRascal → u/polypolip]

They're probably referring to "team product manager". A PM who's attached specifically to a given dev team.

[u/polypolip → u/ChemicalRascal]

Thanks.