Servant Leader or A True Leader in Scrum

What is servant leadership, and why did The Scrum Guide change its definition?

Martin Novak
Product Coalition
Published in
4 min readMay 3, 2021

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The 2020 revision of The Scrum Guide has changed the definition of a Scrum Master from a servant leader to a true leader. Even though the guide still talks about how Scrum Master serves the others, it is a change that happened for a reason.

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Martin is a product manager at work, a software developer in his free time, and an entrepreneur at heart.