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There was one company I worked at where they went into Scrum with both feet. Sponsored it at senior management level, did offsite training for developers and product managers and accepted that there would be a productivity hit for six months while they made the transition. The outcome was not increased productivity but better visibility of the development pipeline, and to a certain extent better software quality and more reliable delivery. I’ve not seen any other company willing to invest this much beyond a couple of in house training sessions and then telling the engineer a to “do scrum” while the business continues to ride roughshod over any kind of engineering planning. That said, if you were willing to put that much effort baselining your staff on any process you’d probably get good results, but such matters are typically an afterthought to the running of the business.