[davidham]

I have had good experience with Scrum when all the participants had a common grounding in it, and worked together toward its goal of frequent delivery of valuable software. But I’ve also had bad experiences, in which the company claimed or pretended to do scrum but left out one or more key parts. The main thing you need, and that we don’t have at my current company, is someone to act as the product owner, the person who says what they want built. The key relationship is between Product (who wants a thing built) and Engineering (who build the thing). Without that, we have a lot of performative number-watching and busy-keeping.