I agree with the criticisms of Scrum on the whole. However I find it bizarre that this article and the other one it links to (which quotes Milton Friedman, whic

I agree with the criticisms of Scrum on the whole. However I find it bizarre that this article and the other one it links to (which quotes Milton Friedman, which ought to be enough to raise eyebrows by itself) crticises organisations which market themselves as non-hierarchical (or in the marketing lingo 'holacracies') when they clearly adhere to hierarchy if you think about it in any depth, just a badly organised one. Edit: And I guess my real point here is that Scrum doesn't usually work because the development team as a whole has no way of pushing back on decisions made by the overall business hierarchy unless they just go tools-down. Then it goes on to crticise Valve for not delivering HL3, despite that clearly being a successful business (and one where Gabe has over 50% of the $2.5 billion equity valuation... non-hierarchical, sure, whatever you say) - perhaps all of this emphasis on shipping products as fast as possible and no emphasis on the service and the interests of staff is the real problem here.