> There is a weird underlying assumption in these kinds of articles that implicitly seems to assume that Scrum will somehow turn a bad team into a good one. Th

> There is a weird underlying assumption in these kinds of articles that implicitly seems to assume that Scrum will somehow turn a bad team into a good one. This assumption starts with one of the earliest Scrum pioneers, Jeff Sutherland. He writes quite clearly that he doesn't care about an individual's performance, but rather a team's performance. He also talks at length about how poor performing teams can be turned into high performing ones by the implementation of Scrum. You can agree or disagree with him on this (I'm on the fence), but it's not at all weird that this idea is found within Scrum. It was there from the get go. It's there by design.