How pushy should a scrum master be? My Scrum team has given me feedback that I should not be as dogmatic about Scrum and Agile as I currently am. I should “relax” and integrate more with how the company does things. I am happy to do this but I am just unsure how relaxed I must get. I thought that Scrum Masters are change agents always pushing for Agile evolution. Is there a way for me to gauge whether I am taking things too seriously or going to far? For example if I did the scrum master checklist with the team and we get ticks for most stuff does they mean I can relax a bit more. Any advice would be helpful.

Invest your engergy in coaching the team rather than pushing them.

If there is resistance to your ideas then you can:

* Try and understand the motivation behind the resistance
* Come up with better constructed arguments for why your approach is better
* Look to find quantative evidence as to why the current approach is not working well



The key here is to make people _want to change_ , rather than telling them to change. This will tend to make the changes you make more likely to persist.