[bmm6o]

Great, another anti-Scrum rant!

As I've said before, defense of agile and Scrum can easily get into "no true Scotsman" territory, with tedious back-and-forths about whether you are really following the philosophy and if your processes were just more pure you would see the light. Fortunately, this essay neatly cuts off that debate with "I have literally never seen Planning Poker performed in a way which fails to undermine this goal." This is an argument that the ideals of Scrum are hard to achieve, or that managing people to get them to buy into a new process is difficult; it says nothing about the success (or lack thereof) that would result if you were able to follow the methodology.