#TrueScrumMaster 1:
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Hosted and facilitated by Tobias Mayer, and held on the first Thursday of February, March, May, June, July and September 2025, this series of six ninety-minute conversations will help you understand the radically different nature of Scrum, and the role of the scrum master in keeping transitioning organisations on the true path towards a new way of working—and thinking. Each session has a different theme, which will be revealed a week or so ahead of the session. Watch this space.
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#TrueScrumMaster 1: What (exactly) is a Scrum Master?
Back to basics for this first conversation in the series. Let's seek some common understanding of this weirdly-named and abstractly-described scrum 'accountability'. We'll start with some unambiguous statements of what a scrum master is not, so bring a list of your own nots to the session as tinder for the dialogue. Your list can be words or pictures, literal or metaphorical. Once we've eliminated the nots we can open our hearts and minds to new possibilities, and even new realities.
References
What is a scrum master?
Scrum masters must be technical 🕶
Scrum master ≠ project manager
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Recommended reading (or listening) in between sessions:
Scrum Notes
The People's Scrum
LinkedIn Posts
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A spirited scrum master is Feste, the court jester in Twelfth Night, speaking truth to power. She is an Old Testament prophet, leading the people back to their true path, and she is Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio, sitting on the shoulder of the organisation, its whispering conscience. Historically, there has been no role in an organisation quite like this one.
— from Scrum Note 41, 2017
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