When an agile or Scrum team isn't working well together, the problem might be mistakes you, as the team's Scrum Master, are making.

Mike Cohn, author of three best-selling agile and Scrum books, introduces 7 pitfalls Scrum Masters encounter, and explains how you and your team can escape them.

00:00 Introduction
00:35 The #1 mistake all Scrum Masters make
00:54 Two easy ways to break the opinion habit
01:44 The secret power of silence
02:12 Why telling is a good way to start but a bad way to finish
03:11 One way to know teams are becoming agile
03:16 One thing great Scrum Masters do for their teams
03:29 The worst thing you can do in a daily scrum
04:36 Why running a daily scrum is bad for teams
04:50 Why skipping Scrum meetings is a mistake
05:35 When to do Scrum by the book
05:46 When NOT to do Scrum by the book
06:00 The Scrum Guide is just a PDF
06:16 Stop treating every product backlog item as a user story
06:47 One of the worst Scrum Master pitfalls
06:55 Why you shouldn't insist teams finish everything every sprint
07:08 What happens when not finishing becomes a habit
07:38 How to solve the problem of rolling work into the next sprint

Let's keep the conversation going. What other common Scrum Master mistakes have you made? What's the worst mistake you've seen a Scrum Master make? Let us know in the comments.

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