Scrum works fine when it's just programmers. Scrum and Agile become shackles when management gets involved and sees it as a status-checkup for their top-down vi

Scrum works fine when it's just programmers. Scrum and Agile become shackles when management gets involved and sees it as a status-checkup for their top-down view. The latter scenario seems to be 90% of situations, unfortunately.