I very much understand that there needs to be developer buy-in, that management can and will attempt to derail the process, and that dominant personalities who

I very much understand that there needs to be developer buy-in, that management can and will attempt to derail the process, and that dominant personalities who don't understand their purpose may use them as a pulpit. I would still argue, that those particular issues will create worse outcomes under other management approaches. The distinguishing feature of scrum is that it is a bottom-up approach created by developers. itil and prince look ridiculous in comparison - and in terms of their rigidity in trying to formulate a set-of-rules that can be used to cover all software management processes. At the very least scrum is a baseline of principles, created by developers for developers that can be used to argue against unproductive intrusion by management.