I wrote, “Scrum is a cancer,” and the Internet had thoughts about it
I'll reply with what I said last time:<p>Read the Agile Manifesto, it's been written by people far smarter and wiser than me, and likely most of us.<p><a href="https://agilemanifesto.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://agilemanifesto.org/</a><p>Manifesto for Agile Software Development<p>We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:<p>Individuals and interactions over processes and tools<p>Working software over comprehensive documentation<p>Customer collaboration over contract negotiation<p>Responding to change over following a plan<p>That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.<p>---<p>IMHO: Agile is great.  It can even happen without calling it... agile!<p>Alas: Most SCRUM is not Agile.<p>My opinion on SCRUM: As implemented in most places, it is WORSE than waterfall.  It lacks the planning of waterfall, and the psychological tricks of timeboxing.<p>That said, I bet you could take all the same "practices" and move them into a better culture, and they'd work.<p>Culture will always trump process.