Any tech that claims to be a silver bullet never is. I consider scrum or other project management technologies to fall into this bucket as well. Can it be a u

Any tech that claims to be a silver bullet never is. I consider scrum or other project management technologies to fall into this bucket as well. Can it be a useful framework? Sure. Can it be terrible? Sure. What really makes a team successful is good people. Good people can make anything work, even if it's a bad system. Bad people can take something reasonable and turn it into a dumpsterfire. About 10 years ago, when I did my first scrum training, I could practically see the kool-aid being passed around. It is something that worked for someone, so we just needed to do it, because it would make everything better. What mattered more was the higher level managers always making arbitrary decisions against what the line devs knew to be true. While scrum was supposed to empower us, it really didn't, as we managed to have the managers always defining the stories and sprints, and basically used it as a stick to beat us with every 2 weeks. Organizations and people do as they want, and will do it in any framework people propose. A framework like scrum, or a tool like JIRA won't make a bad team a good team. It seems like every consultant is trying to sell the story of how you can take a non-functioning team and make it a bunch of rockstars with their class. But it never works. You just need to be working with the best people, and that's what gets results.