#TrueScrumMaster

A Meetup Series

Hosted and facilitated by Tobias Mayer, 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 this new way of working—and thinking. Each session will have a different theme, established closer to its date. Click a date link to see specific information for that date.

Recommended reading (or listening) in between sessions:

• Scrum Notes
• The People's Scrum
• LinkedIn Posts

Jester, prophet and conscience

"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 he is Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio, sitting on the shoulder of the organisation, its whispering conscience." — Scrum Note 41, 2017

Poet and artisan

"The scrum master is an organisational poet. Her material is not language, but environments and relationships. The scrum master sits on the edge of the corporate melee, thoughtfully figuring out how to rescue lost souls from hierarchical, procedural hell, free them up to become the creative humans God made them to be, while at the same time calming the fires of hubris, vanity, indignation, and self-righteousness that threaten to consume them." — What is a Scrum Master?, 2023

Organic gardener

"A thoughtful, learned and caring Scrum Master can be compared to an organic gardener, lovingly preparing the organisational soil, letting change emerge, nurturing it, guiding the growth patiently, gently and naturally, while removing weeds without introducing toxins." — The Scrum Master as Organic Gardener