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That's all for now. Good luck with the article.

5. I am not sure that "My dear Scrum Masters.." is recommended by the editors as an expression to be used. I could be wrong, however. Maybe you could write "I invite all Scrum Masters to make this your habit."

4. I think there is a typo here "As different people bring out a complete different idea of approaching a problem *and* a solution, and a team works best when all these differences are accepted". There is something wrong with the wording... maybe the 'and' (I've marked it with *and*) is the problem? Hard to know.

3. you use the term 'pattern' somehow differently than I do when working with e.g. Scrum Patterns... here a pattern is "a solution to a problem in a certain context". Just a not on it... I would suggest you pick a different term, just to go safe here.

2. No matter that I agree with you on the following "We need to identify and make sure such differences do to not matter when teams work together. " it is a fact that *relations* mean the world to us when cooperating in teams. E.g. when using Self-selection during forming a new team, people mainly choose to be a team where they feel comfortable with the others. Just a thought.

1. "Inclusion, and I go aboard a different train of thought." I think you would want to say ... and I *went* aboard a ..