So I hear someone say: My company is not thinking of hiring Scrum Masters for the current Scrum adoption initiative that is underway. We appear to have plenty of Project Managers (yet that community believes they need more "heads"). Yes, "heads" is the unit of measure for our "resources." So the apparent logic that I have explained to me - because I'm just too illogical to arrive at the obvious is ... we will just let the PMs do the SM roll. Right, no problem there. It shouldn't take too much time to do the Scrum Master's job... just a few meetings and that silly 15 minute stand-up each day. Yep - that's the plan. So now lets look at one metric and ask ourselves why this trend is happening. Let's compare salaries of Scrum Masters to Project Managers. You can get the latest info via Indeed.com . data from Indeed Salary survey David Bland (Scrumology) did this some time back and reported that a SM in 2009 average...