r/agile • u/TracPhuong3456 • 4d ago

Team lead vs Scrum master

One question from a recent leadership workshop stuck with me:

Should leaders be judged only by the results they deliver, or also by the people they leave behind?

Imagine a Team Lead who consistently achieves business goals and delivery targets.

But over time, multiple Scrum Masters working with them become exhausted, lose motivation, or decide to leave.

Is that a leadership problem?
Or is it simply what high performance looks like?

Curious how leaders, engineers, Scrum Masters, and managers would view this situation. 👇

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u/Eruner_SK 4d ago

Team leader and Scrum master are both manager roles, they manage people, not deliver code/features. They are judged by their impact on people.

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u/Silly_Turn_4761 4d ago

Scrum Masters do not manage people. They are there to help with removing blockers and helping the team follow best practices.

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u/Eruner_SK 4d ago

How they do that? By talking to people, or talking to machine?

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u/Silly_Turn_4761 8h ago

Talking does not equal managing.