I'm a team leader and my company is now migrating to an agile scrum organisation. It seems that the direction is to remove the team lead role and replace it by line managers and scrum masters. Can these 2 positions cover the team leader roles? Can we keep the team leader role in a Scrum organisation?
So practically if in an environment we should apply a strict Scrum implementation, there is no role called Team Lead and the team lead can be seen as a senior team member in the scrum team?
In a strict Scrum implementation there is none. But there are team activities which are not governed by Scrum even in its best implementation - like vacations, business trips, performance evaluations, time and status reports for PMs or any other higher-ups etc. These things often end up as responsibility of one single person and then he is most often called a Team Lead.
