A brief list of what Scrum gets wrong
Scrum isn&#x27;t good or bad, but the way the OP (or their company) uses it seems to be a reflection of an inflexible culture.<p>For example, the OP argues how scrum strips engineers the autonomy they need to get the job done and how it&#x27;s super inflexible. When we did scrum with my team, the scrum master role was rotated among engineers, growing each of us significantly as professionals. We also made changes to the &quot;core&quot; of scrum after our retrospectives when we decided it was stuff that did not work for us. When management tried to use story points for tracking or forecasting we told them to forget about the whole thing. We added bugfixing sprints after we observed the bugs piling up.<p>I can go on - we made scrum work in an environment where we were empowered to do what makes sense. The crux of the post seems to be that OP has some very rigid management and devs cannot change the mindset.<p>Instead of complaining about scrum, I suggest the OP either try changing the culture from the team level. Or if it won&#x27;t work, just get out and work at a place where there is sane management who does not drink the rigid scrum kool-aid. Luckily, there are more and more places like that these days.