I’m scanning the job boards again. My contract’s winding down. And what do I see?
Release Manager.
Right next to it?
Scrum Master.
And I can’t help but wonder — How is this still a thing?
Release Manager: The Role Automation Forgot
CI/CD has been a thing for over a decade. Trunk-based development? Same. But we’re still hiring people to coordinate deployments by hand.
If your team still needs a Release Manager, your pipeline isn’t the only thing stuck in 2010.
Scrum Master: The Ritual Facilitator
Scrum is old. The ceremonies are tired. And most teams I’ve seen are doing stand-up theatre — not collaboration. Hiring someone to facilitate the performance doesn’t help.
Coordination Is Not Delivery
We’ve confused coordination with progress. These roles paper over bad architecture, broken trust, and duct-taped processes.
The slightly longer original + More cynicism (and a small plug for my next role) here:
👉 thecynical.dev/posts/obsolete-jobs-in-2025
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