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I think you'll find "distributed decision-making" is no panacea. I joined a company recovering from a distributed governance model, and the big challenge was that nobody had enough decision-making authority for the firm to change quickly and respond to the evolving outside world. Bringing a whole room to consensus is a lot tougher than getting a few people to disagree-but-commit and move on with their day.

Funny enough, you even see this paradigm in secret messaging with Signal: the ecosystem is moving[0]. If you want a system that can evolve in response to external change, centralization is useful.

This isn't a defense of scrum, but a voice of opposition to running businesses as distributed utopias. It sounds great on paper, but you'll be out-competed by the faster-moving entities with centralized power very quickly.

[0]: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/