Scrum was a boon for snake-oil salesmen. You don't have to be very smart, or know anything about software, to become a scrum consultant. Anybody can learn the

Scrum was a boon for snake-oil salesmen. You don't have to be very smart, or know anything about software, to become a scrum consultant. Anybody can learn the structure of the process, dress like management, and be dogmatic. The only special ability you need is the ability to make promises without caring if you can keep them, and to keep promising over and over again that the reason nothing is working is that you haven't been given enough power yet. That said, some of the ideas in it are good, and I think these days people try to intelligently incorporate individual elements of scrum into their own process. In the long run, the influence might be net positive, even though there's a lot of damage to make up for.