When The Team Tells You You're Doing Too Much — That's The Success Signal | Aimé Flemm

Aimé Flemm: When The Team Tells You You're Doing Too Much — That's The Success Signal

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"It's when you know you're on the right track — when the teams start complaining that you're doing too much." - Aimé Flemm

 

Aimé got the feedback nobody wants to hear: "You're being too much in the front of the group." His first reaction was to take it personally. Then he saw it for what it was — the success signal. The team was telling him: let us do it. After months of helping them build self-managing capability, they hit a tipping point. They wanted the floor. He stepped back, started "actively doing nothing," sat down and crossed his arms. When they brought a problem, he asked: "What are you going to do about this? Have you tried that already?" But Aimé pushed back on himself in this conversation, and accepted the reframe: the Scrum Master isn't less needed at the tipping point — they're needed differently . The shift is from teaching and facilitating ceremonies to nudging with questions, helping the team reach out when they're stuck, surfacing issues with the PO and outside stakeholders. The focus shifts when you reach success. Don't take "you're doing too much" as offense — take it as your cue to change levels.

 

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