Part 33 in our #scrummaster #interviewquestions series where John McFadyen answers common questions asked of scrum master and #agilecoaches in interviews and client engagements.  

This is a great question that explores how you, as the scrum master or agile coach, will balance the organization's desire and intention to adopt and/or implement #scrum with the need for #scrummasters to respect the team's preferred processes and ways of working.  

As a scrum master, you invite not impose. Your job isn't to enforce anything, instead you need to lead opportunities through invitation, experimentation and through gathering evidence to support the case for #agile or #scrum within the environment.  

In this short video, John McFadyen explains how he would address the question of enforcing scrum versus honouring agile values and principles described and defined in the #agilemanifesto   

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