The Bad News? Scrum is REALLY Popular!
From our Agile friend, Adam Weisbart... The Bad News? Scrum is Really Popular! Excerpt: In many, many cases, orgs aren’t adopting Scrum because they believe in the values of Agility, they adopt it because they think they’ll magically get teams to do twice the work in half the time . The rest from Adam... I’ve been doing and teaching Scrum for over a decade. Each year I think we’ve hit “peak Scrum”, which gets me worried because I’ve seen Scrum help so many people and organizations. It’s transformative, and I’d miss its magic if it disappeared. But I’ve got some bad news… Each year, Scrum seems to get more and MORE popular. There’s no end in sight. “Wait… what?! Why all this doom and gloom Adam? It’s POPULAR!” One reason: Scrum is so popular organizations are adopting it simply BECAUSE IT’S SO POPULAR. …and that’s a horrible reason to do anything. In many, many cases, orgs aren’t adopting Scrum be...
