Face it, Scrum might not be for your organization

Your job as a ScrumMaster is to take a stand. Be courageous. Laugh in the face of fear. Your mission is much bigger than to be an iteration manager or to create a burndown chart. You are attempting to change things for the better, enrich people's lives, and make work a better place to be.

I do not, for one moment, feel that it's fair to put all the responsibility on one person, the ScrumMaster, to incite and sustain change in an organization. But it must start somewhere. And if we wait on the perfect combination of events or people, change will never happen. However, you might feel overwhelmed after reading this chapter. Maybe you didn't know that this is what a ScrumMaster is chartered to do. Maybe you knew but hoped you didn't need to know! ScrumMaster as change agent was the ultimate vision that Ken Schwaber had in mind when he created the role. All of this gets lost in translation, when the practices override the mind-set.

At some point...