As a Scrum Master, it is my job to create a setting that allows new ideas, quick adjustments and good exchange. A context in which routines can be broken and mistakes can be allowed, welcomed or even celebrated. Our traditional understanding of a company as a machine with constantly functioning gears, classic hierarchies, rigid job profiles and infallible decision makers is proving to be too rigid for the digital and globalized world. Since there are no absolute solutions and technologies and requirements change rapidly, no rigid project plans lead to the goal. What is needed are processes that enable rapid testing and adaptation.

We are faced with challenges that exceed the competence of individual employees, teams or even companies. Therefore, more unconventional problem solving, more trial-error-learning, stronger exchange and better feedback loops are necessary across all industries. And thus a new understanding of companies as growing organisms in which processes, rules and positions are changeable and can be regularly adapted. Where agile values such as courage, openness and respect can actually be applied.