[vladvlad]

Not in my experience, no. In fact, it's pretty nearly the farthest thing from the getting shit done thing I've actually dealt with.

Just getting shit done doesn't mean bullshit arbitrary time-slices, half-day postmortems at the end of said timeslices, insertion of "project managers" who know little to nothing of either the actual business problem being address or the technical means used to address it, people working on a parallel svd implementation having to explain their work daily to web designers, blah blah blah.

The whole thing is a money making cult for the people who invented it, and a means of empowering a class of employees (project managers) who should exist only in very small numbers, if at all.

The claim seems to be that if you don't use scrum, you will just end up doing some horrible waterfall. This is a false dichotomy.