When Agile drifts towards control rather than responsiveness, it is easy to turn Scrum events into performances.
Safe. Polished. Predictable. But quietly useless.
I saw this first-hand when I started as a Scrum Master in a new organisation.
I ran our Sprint Reviews as real conversations, not controlled presentations – and that shift towards openness and responsiveness was genuinely liberating for the team.
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