Not to take away from either point, and I largely agree, but written word is our 'mode 2' - a lot can be missed without talking face to face. Yes the issue wit

Not to take away from either point, and I largely agree, but written word is our 'mode 2' - a lot can be missed without talking face to face. Yes the issue with standups/scrum cereomonies is if people ignore all the 'other' info they are receiving and for what ever reason choose to ignore it. The real key for Scrum for me has to be not only teams that want to write good code, but teams that WANT to get better at working together. That takes the whole team. If the team aren't bought in to this, then I'm not sure which project management tool will work for them, but it sure isn't scrum!