It's not about scrum or agile, it's about people
One of my ongoing pet peeves it's the marketing over substance of the usual "agile" and "scrum" proponents. I've found near constantly that the focus of this approach by it's advocates, is not to facilitate a team; but to prove that the process (i.e. scrum based agile) is the best (and typically only) way to run a technical project, and write software. Agile? ......... sounds more ridged to me. I find this ironic as the pushers (appear, in my experience to) rarely come come from a software architecture, or at least development back ground. It more appears a thinly veiled covering over typical old school management tactics. As in part demonstrated by this post : http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/11/working-with-difficult-people Ignoring the apparent "I'm right your wrong" title (which sums up what I'm talking about) and going straight for some of the contents of the post, that supports my points. (Points they are ironically