[tootie]

Anyone who traffics in buzzwords without adding value is the problem. Scrum is fantastic when you understand the why of its process instead of just following the rules. If you schedule scrums and sprint planning, then accept ungroomed stories, change priorities, deliver without testing, then you are doing it wrong. Really disciplined and experienced teams can follow the intent without the process, but more often than not you need rules to keep everyone aligned.

[k__]

Isn't scrum what happend to XP after managers mangled it?

[tootie]

XP was for developers. Scrum expands it to product management and ownership. The biggest benefit to me isn't developer productivity, it's the ease with which we can communicate progress to stakeholders.

[crdoconnor]

If it truly worked you should be able to just follow the process.

IME tech debt gets worse under "scrum done right" and velocity is a bullshit measure. Those two things alone are enough to reject it.

It's a shame because scrum gets, like, 70% right.