[TIL] Saying "I do not understand" has positive effects

Beginning of this week started by one Scrum Master escalating in an important project tracking meeting that one very important team is blocked, because the teams I am responsible for are not providing them enough resources. This of course lead to the Project Lead, who is one hierarchy level higher then I am, to immediately tell me "They are blocked, sort this out.".

So I got invited an hour or so later to on "Offline" meeting, that was actually a MS Teams call. The Scrum Master invited also one of my Product Owners to the meeting and the guy openly said, that he has no one to spare and he needs to drop other important stuff, if he is pushed to provide more resources.
This was the screenplay after that:

• Me: "What needs to be done?"
  
• Scrum Master: "Requirements need to be reviewed for Testability until End of next week."
  
• Me: "I understand this is the deadline, but there are also parallel tasks of high importance. What exact requirements need to be reviewed?"
  
• Scrum Master: "If you cannot provide the resources, I will go again to the Project Lead and tell him this."
  
• Me: "I do not understand the answer. What exact requirements need to be reviewed?"
  
• Scrum Master: "You mean you need a list?"
  
• Me: "Yes."
  
• Scrum Master: "But the Deadline …"
  
• Me: "I will prioritize the resources, but I need to know what exactly is to be done and when. Then we can make some sort of slotted agenda review meeting and get this done."
  
• Scrum Master: "Ok, but this is a burden on the team."
  
• Me: "Why? I do not understand, they should simply dump to a list from the tool."
  
• Scrum Master: "They will do it, we talk again in latest 2 days."
  

So I was thinking, "Why does he need 2 days to simply dump the requirements to a list??". But hey, he's the Scrum Master.

Two days later, the follow up meeting:

• Scrum Master: "We created the list and assigned the requirements to proper people."
  
• Me: "Wait, but those people are not in my teams."
  
• Scrum Master: "Yes, we figured out that we actually do not need testers but software architects to do the review."
  
• Me: "Ok, great. Then we can finish the meeting early."
  

Today I Learned: Sometimes saying you do not understand, brings positive effects.