Stop Facilitating, Start Leading
The Scrum Master's Path to Value Flow Management
You’ve facilitated your 50th retrospective. The same issues surface. The same action items are created. Nothing changes. Features marked "done" sit in queues for months. You’re doing your job perfectly—and it’s making no difference.
What if the problem isn’t your facilitation skills? What if the Scrum Master role itself is trapped in an outdated model?
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Stop Facilitating, Start Leading shows you how to evolve from a ceremony facilitator to a flow leader—someone accountable for measurable business outcomes, not just well-run meetings.
This isn’t about getting a new job title. It’s about shifting your posture:
- From activities to outcomes: Lead time reduction, not velocity tracking
- From framework follower to flow optimizer: Optimize what works, not what Scrum says
- From facilitator to solver: Own the problem resolution, not just the discussion
What you get
- 15 comprehensive chapters: From diagnosis to implementation, with practical tools at every step
- Fictional stories from real practitioners: Follow Sophie, Thomas, and Alix through authentic transformation journeys
- Kanban Maturity Model roadmap: Progressive path from team-focused to portfolio-level optimization
- Actionable frameworks: Value Stream Mapping, Improvement OKRs, Flow Metrics, and more
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Tristan Libersat is an Agile Delivery Leader and Coach at Capgemini, where he works with teams and organizations to optimize their flow of value delivery.
His journey into agility started in 2013 with an unexpected revelation. Attending a Certified Scrum Master training facilitated by Jeff Sutherland himself, Tristan discovered that 70% of the course focused on Lean principles—waste reduction, value stream mapping, theory of constraints, A3 thinking, and metrics. This foundation shaped his conviction that true agility isn’t about ceremonies; it’s about continuous flow and measurable outcomes.
Over the past decade at Capgemini in Toulouse, France, Tristan has trained and coached hundreds of professionals, helping them move beyond “doing agile” to actually being agile. As a professional coach specializing in agile roles, Tristan works one-on-one with Scrum Masters, RTEs, and DevOps Engineers to help them evolve their practice, expand their impact, and navigate organizational constraints.
Beyond individual coaching, he has managed the staffing and career development of Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and DevOps Engineers—giving him unique insight into the challenges these professionals face in organizations. He’s observed firsthand the frustration of Scrum Masters stuck facilitating their 51st retrospective with the same problems resurfacing, which inspired him to write this book.
A regular contributor to Medium and the agile community, Tristan writes about the systemic challenges facing Scrum Masters, the gap between agile theory and practice, and practical approaches to organizational change. His articles on team self-organization and why agile frameworks keep people frustrated have resonated with thousands of practitioners worldwide.
Father of 2, he lives in Toulouse with a passion for Space and chess—a game that, as he writes, taught him more about transformation strategy than many agile frameworks. He continues his mission to help agile practitioners evolve from ceremony facilitators to true flow leaders.
Connect with Tristan on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/tlibersat or read his writing on Medium @tlibersat.
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