u/Elegant-Coffee3589

You left a note at my door again.

Just like you used to.

This time was different.

It was missing the "I love you".

Besides just writing in a notebook, what breakup journal with prompts do you think will be good? Any recommendations? Just dumped from a 4-year relationship by my fiancé.

Besides just writing in a notebook, what breakup journal with prompts do you think will be good? Any recommendations? Just dumped from a 4-year relationship by my fiancé.

Its no secret that pure Scrum Master roles are shrinking. What opportunities are worth pursuing that will utilize our Scrum Master experience?

Its been 2 years and things are better, but I don't think they are going to have the comfort we had before. When do I stop trying to heal this relationship? Maybe it will be better for us to heal separately and just move on.

My partner and I are currently searching for a new apartment. I lost my job recently and do not have any income besides savings and unemployment. My partner has an income and based on the 40x rule can cover the amount we are looking to rent for completely. We both have good credit scores.

My question, is can I still be approved as a tenant on the lease if I cannot meet that 40x income rule but my partner can? Will I have to be an occupant instead? We are unmarried.

How do you deal with the fear of becoming a single mom if your relationship/marriage breaksdown or if you are abandoned by your SO? I'm afraid of having to do it all on my own.

been in agile long enough to feel weird about what's happening right now, curious if others are seeing it too.

scrum masters and coaches are getting cut everywhere and the easy explanation is AI took the job. but i don't buy that. AI isn't doing anything a good scrum master does. what it's automating is the stuff a lot of us got away with treating AS the job: running standups, nagging people to update tickets, pulling velocity charts, scheduling ceremonies. if that was 80% of your week, you were always going to be exposed eventually.

that's the uncomfortable part. i think this role got commoditized because we let it become process admin. two day cert, learn the ceremony script, keep the board tidy. companies looked at that and went why are we paying a salary for a meeting organizer and honestly that's hard to argue with once the role shrinks to that.

the actually valuable version is spotting when a team is quietly dysfunctional and naming it, mediating the conflict nobody wants to touch, building enough safety that people give you the real status instead of the safe one, untangling dependencies before they blow up, none of that is going anywhere and AI can't touch it. but that stuff never showed up neatly on a board, so it was always the easiest to overlook and hardest to defend at budget time.

so my honest take: agile isn't dying, but the ceremony runner version of the role is and maybe that's not entirely a bad thing even if it's brutal for the people living it. where does this group land? are you seeing the cuts too? genuinely AI or companies deciding they got what they wanted and dropping the change agents?