2026-11-05
When Scrum Masters Should Break the Rules and Build It Themselves
This one is a polarizing topic in the Agile community 🤓
I know the theory, the team should own its improvements and the Scrum Master shouldn't do the work for them. But when a team is too busy to improve, waiting for a volunteer can take forever, and the credibility I got from building it myself made everything after that so much easier. 🤷🏻♂️
Has doing it yourself ever helped your team more than waiting for them to handle it?
Excerpt from "The Scrum Master Of The Future", presented at Regional Scrum Gathering Brussels 2026.
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Whoever filmed the first half of this video is a very good person 😁 And about the topic.. I agree and disagree, but more agree. With conservative teams, where you're just "that new Agile person" and the pushback is strong, doing some "real" work with them is the fastest way to earn respect. I've been there with very experienced teams 🤷♀️ The trick is not getting stuck there, right? … more
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