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The Future of the Scrum Master: From Facilitator to Catalyst

Scroll through LinkedIn or Twitter and you’ll see the headlines: “Agile is dead” or “Scrum Masters are obsolete".The debate rages with skeptics pointing to failed transformations, rigid processes, or teams...

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From Dogma to Pragmatism: The Scrum Master’s Balancing Act

At a client site, I observed a well-meaning leader insist that the Daily Scrum must be run “by the book.” Each developer had to answer the three questions in order...

Agility

Scrum Masters as Flow Enablers: Beyond the Ceremonies

A product team I once collaborated with was consistently frustrated by the same issue: their work kept getting delayed by security reviews. Each sprint, progress slowed, delivery dates slipped, and...

Agility

Why Scrum Masters Still Matter

Not long ago, a team I worked with decided they no longer needed their Scrum Master. “We know Scrum,” they said. “We’ll save time if we just do it ourselves.”...

Agility

Failing Forward: Why AI Mistakes Are Your Best Agile Investment

The experiment seemed like a sure thing. The product team had been exploring ways to speed up definition-of-done checks, so they trained an AI to generate acceptance criteria for new...

Agility

AI Metrics in Agile: Don’t Let the Dashboard Fool You

The leadership team was buzzing. The new AI-powered dashboard had just shown a sharp spike in the velocity forecast, and everyone took it as a sign that productivity had jumped...

Agility

AI, Flow, and the Hunt for Bottlenecks

Midway through a sprint, a Kanban team’s AI analytics dashboard flashed an alert: “High probability of downstream delay in QA within 3 days.” The forecast wasn’t based on guesswork; it...

Agility

What Does a Scrum Master Do Every Day? A Complete Guide

A lot of people ask, what does a Scrum master do every day? Now we can elevate this and say, scrum master, agile coach, whatever the term is that you...