Do Product Owners and Scrum Masters outrank team members?
This is an odd belief as there is a strong tendency for people within the Scrum community (where the Product Owner and Scrum Master roles come from) to talk about Servant Leadership which seems to be the opposite of outranking team members.
As an aside, I've never really been a fan of "servant leadership". Instead, I like the idea of Host Leadership.
Extreme Programming used to distinguish Customer Rights vs Programmer Rights (and then eventually Managers and Testers wanted in on that action) in order to clarify accountabilities and essentially balance power.
I wonder whether being explicit about rights like in earlier Extreme Programming would address the problem of people misinterpreting the roles of Product Owners and Scrum Masters.
But there's a reason why rights aren't really discussed that much anymore.
The point is not a fight for power and rights but rather how to work together as humans for a common goal, aka Whole Team.
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