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Best practice in application design / SQL authentication

I am currently involved in the implementation/design of an existing application for a large scale customer. The application has a similar model as e.g. vCenter Server whereby a number of components store information in and extract information and workflows form a central database. The environment is managed from a console application which uses a windows service to connect to the database.

Best practice in application design / SQL authentication

I am currently involved in the implementation/design of an existing application for a large scale customer. The application has a similar model as e.g. vCenter Server whereby a number of components store information in and extract information and workflows form a central database. The environment is managed from a console application which uses a windows service to connect to the database.

What are the negatives of Development Managers as Scrum Masters?

It is commonly agreed that team managers should not be scrum masters, but I am struggling to see why. For context, I am an Application Development Manager with 4 devs in a Scrum Team. I come from a Scrum Master background, and have introduced scrum to the organisation. I have built the team from scratch and made it clear that everything I do is to facilitate the team, and that they make the decisions. As a team we are very open – they even silenced me at stand-ups for a while to eliminate the ‘reporting’ feel we were starting to get. A lack of openness is generally the biggest argument against the manager as scrum master, but handled well, is easily overcome with the right culture.