Scrum is a cancer
In one of my previous projects I lead a team of 5 talented and creative people and we did truly agile programming: everyone helped each other, asynchronous meets as needed, spontaneous pair programming, direct access to the customer (who also happened to be technical people with a clear picture in mind)... Truly a joy of a team to lead, because they really lead themselves :)<p>However, the management insisted that we adopt Scrum and get a Scrum Master to help us.<p>I objected to this and listed all of the problems I could see if Scrum was introduced: losing dev creativity and incentive, tickets taking exactly one sprint to complete instead of doing them at leisurely pace, the mistranslation coming from having one extra layer of communication (Scrum Master handling the client now).<p>The management response was: &quot;that is not real Scrum, you had bad experiences because you weren&#x27;t doing it right previously&quot;.<p>After three months, the progress slowed to a crawl, star dev abandoned ship, and customers started complaining for the first time.<p>Now I will just wait for someone to tell me that this wasn&#x27;t real Scrum either, because we were supposed to have Product Owner talk to the client instead of Scrum Master :)