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Honestly SCRUM is an abomination, a tentative to adapt a mass-production technique (Toyoda Kanban for mechanical industry of the '900) to R&D/intellectual activities.

The abomination is refusing to understand that creative activities can't be done well in constrained setups, while mass-production work very well with a certain rigidity. Toyoda NEVER tried to make Toyota R&D a kanban activity, just the factory part was kanban. Modern neoliberal managers have decided that the same technique they like can scale, while it can't. As a result we see a kind of quality-rise in listing terms, while the final outcome is crapwares monsters no one can understand not master, witch a big batch of side techniques to keep them artificially alive to a certain extent.

Classic sw development have flaws, Agile manifesto was a tentative to mitigate them, but have not much to do with SCRUM nor with what we call agile today.



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