This is really the heart of it, I've really only worked in environments that have been top down as their implementation of scrum. When the engineer team got to

This is really the heart of it, I've really only worked in environments that have been top down as their implementation of scrum. When the engineer team got to decide, we picked Kanban. The lightest process for us. Scrum top down. I buy that. Bottom up? I'd give it a try, but the team needs the ability to say "no".