[stephenhuey]

Hear hear! Scrum predates Agile. It welcomes mixing in other tools as needed, e.g. XP, Agile, etc. After 15 years of professional software development, I just picked up a scrum master certificate a couple days ago after my employer paid for the class. I'd rather see teams using scrum than just winging it unless they are provably experienced or extraordinarily competent. Individuals can be good at their work but it's often difficult to get everything in sync on a team, or even if the team is super amazing the complexity of getting things done in a corporate environment with lots of moving parts and dependencies is usually aided by using tools such as scrum. Even when a complex corporate environment commits to trying to follow it, it's still a struggle to get the basic elements of scrum adhered to (enough time with product owner, enough time figuring out dependencies, any time at all spent identifying ways the team could do better in the future and reduce friction, impediments, or needless work). Take a look at the Scrum Guide - I'd be satisfied if just the few events in the minimal scrum framework could be fit in, but often not even that happens.

* edit: provably