Scrum is a communication contract between customers / stakeholders, managers and dev teams. It is a poor cure for social and managerial dysfunction, but it is a

Scrum is a communication contract between customers / stakeholders, managers and dev teams. It is a poor cure for social and managerial dysfunction, but it is a cure. Scrum is a problem when it is mandated and imposed on functional organisations that do better and more fluid communication. This is often done as a way of flexing corporate power and does huge damage. A key problem is that we do not have ways of auditing and measuring the performance of software teams no matter what methods they are using - until then this is all anecdote.