Where does Scrum Master END and Agile Leader BEGIN? Differences/similarities

Before we talk about the comparison and contrast between Scrum Master and Agile Leader, people often compare and contrast Scrum Master and Agile Coach, and they often ask me, what’s the difference?

The oversimplified answer is $200 per day because a scrum master should be working at an organizational level. The oversimplification comes from assuming that people have to do scrum. Of course, they might use some other approaches. However, I think in the current setup, scrum is the most popular approach (rightly or wrongly) in the market. If an “agilist” is unfamiliar with it, I think it says a lot.

That said, people can use other approaches and a decent scrum master should be aware of such approaches. They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches.

As a scrum master, you should not only have scrum in your toolbox. Scrum.org offers a scrum with Kanban workshop and scrum with UX workshop as well. This demonstrates that they are open to other approaches.