You hired smart people, so let them do their job. When managers rely on command-and-control leadership instead of empowering the Scrum team to solve problems, they stifle creativity and limit the value the team can deliver. Scrum is designed for complex environments: places where creativity, adaptation, and real-time problem-solving are essential to delivering value. In that setting, leaders need to lead differently. Rather using the force (or velocity) to choke their underli