Marina Bardelli

When I started my journey in Agile, I believed that good ideas, enough energy, and the right mindset could solve almost anything. As a Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, and later Agile Coach, I was convinced that if people understood the benefits of change, they would embrace it.

I was wrong.

Over the years, I found myself pushing teams too hard, introducing improvements too quickly, and taking responsibility for problems that were never mine to solve. What looked like resistance was often something else entirely: uncertainty, lack of readiness, or simply a different pace of change than I expected.