Is the Role of a Scrum Master as Process Enforcer a Contradiction to the Agile Manifesto?
This question refers to the Agile Manifesto, in which people are put before processes. So, if the Scrum Master’s role is to enforce processes, isn’t that a contradiction to the values in the Agile Manifesto? Let us detangle this: “People over processes and tools” does not necessarily mean that processes and tools are unimportant. People are just more important than processes and tools. But without the processes, all that people power will evaporate quickly. In my view, a Scrum Master is always about people and processes.
A Scrum Master should never be a “process monkey“.