[jghn]

"but I definitely prefer it to waterfall"

I pretty sure you're not doing this here, but there's a lot of options outside of the set of Waterfall & Scrum. All too often when scrum is debated it's often set up in the "well, at least it's better than waterfall!" argument. Great, that might be the case - I'd rather a kick in the ass than the nuts but really I'd prefer neither :)

"the methodology too literally"

As the saying goes, "how big is your but" - because everyone does scrum-but. I'm not a fan of scrum in general, but once the but becomes large enough "scrum" and i can be friends again. The purists drive me bonkers though.

[derefr]

I think when most people talk about agile, or any specific instantiation of it, all they mean is "we're going to not-do-waterfall, and then intuit the rest, while attaching names from some methodology book to whatever results."

[jghn]

True, and admittedly "scrum" has become the "kleenex" and "xerox" of the agile world. Fair point.

[br3w5]

I think my statement about waterfall is misplaced - really I mean the benefits of scrum in my experience outweigh the negatives but I can't say the same for waterfall.

I'm well aware of alternatives to Scrum and if I could choose I would prefer a kanban approach supporting continuous delivery/deployment; rather than be bound by all the constraints of the scrum ceremonies and sprint timelines. Hopefully I'll get to put this into practice in the next couple of months with my team.