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Agile Coaching by Scrum Master? How come Scrum Masters are often stuck in a tactical role at the team level when we all know that a successful Scrum Master increasingly shifts their focus from the Scrum Team to the organization? Or is this effect just collateral damage of a well-known scaling framework’s classification of the Scrum Master role?

Scrum at the team level is not rocket science; however, the serious impediments to becoming agile often reside at the organizational level. So why does it seem necessary to create a new role—the agile coach or organizational coach—to address this need?

Redundancy: Is a Scrum Master of a successful team redundant at the team level? Can they consequently move to a pool of Scrum Masters from which a team needing support can request assistance?

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