I had an interesting criticisim today: "You're being an enabler".
This particular person was referring to the fact that i was sitting in the meeting listening to what people said and entering it into scrumworks for them.
Ironically this is the person who has told me to use the tool we're using, so i found it somewhat interesting since honestly i'd prefer to use notecards.
When you look at :
http://www.scrumalliance.org/view/scrum_framework
and peek into the different roles. You'll see that the 'role' of scrum master is a person who:
Ensure that the team is fully functional and productive;
Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions;
Remove barriers;
Shield the team from external interferences; and
Ensure that the process is followed, including issuing invitations to Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Planning meetings.
. In the end, i continued to enter things into the tool "for the team" because logistically the whole team in the tool messing around all at once during sprint planning sounds too chaotic and i wasn't sure what other option i could implement in 2 hours till the meeting.
The team expected me to enter all that stuff because thats what I did last time and no decision was made by the team to change it. Will i bring it up at the next retrospective? Sure.