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by xondono 1660 days ago
I know, but it’s not how it’s sold.

The typical presentation is “we need agility => Scrum”. One would assume that if Scrum doesn’t fit the bill, one would discard it.

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But, unfortunately, scrum has become synonymous with "Agile" in the corporate mind. Everything, including SRE and ops work, gets force-fit into Jira "Agile" (really FrAgile) methods and meeting-heavy rituals.

But scrum easily devolves to rapid cycle waterfall death marches. This has been going on for at least nine years that I know of. It sucks.

When a company says "We do Agile with Scrum" I wince and am very, very skeptical.

And add DevOps to it, because then one can get rid of run == cost savings.