Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum
Scrum proponents (a label I would tentatively apply to myself) would tell you that &#x27;you&#x27;re doing it wrong&#x27; but unfortunately a point-by-point reply to this article would detract from the general problem here: Scrum is intended to be the straightest line towards measuring your real progress on a project, and not much else<p>If youre working on a project where it is important that you have as-accurate-as-is-realistic an idea of the size of the project, or more specifically your progress through that project, then I can&#x27;t see how a methodology could be any simpler.<p>If having a good idea of the size of your project over time and your progress through that project are not very important from a management perspective, the Scrum artefacts will seem like, and will probably in fact be, needless overhead.<p>Scrum is not opinionated about the actual development methodology so claims about how it affects the code that is written are themselves a bad smell IMO.