Have you heard about DarkScrum? The Agile manifesto doesn't talk about roles or how the process should be, but Scrum does it. Agile itself was introduced by b

Have you heard about DarkScrum? The Agile manifesto doesn't talk about roles or how the process should be, but Scrum does it. Agile itself was introduced by bunch of software engineers came up with the Agile manifesto. It's simple, abstract, and effective. There are many successful tech companies that already have something more extensive than Agile. Agile manifesto is just a good starting point if you don't have anything in place. But somehow Scrum became the recipe to implement Agile and we ended up with a job title called Scrum Master which has been increasingly taken by non technical people inside traditional organizations. I've seen teams that implement Scrum by the book. They have a person called Scrum Master that facilitates all team meetings. It basically turns other team members into reactive players instead of proactive. But, do we really need a person to facilitate team meetings and ceremonies? I talked with a few Scrum Masters, their job satisfaction is actually very low and even though they don't admit it to their own team, they don't believe they are adding real value. What they all have in common is that they all want to switch to a different role and they are looking for an opportunity. I couldn’t find anything similar in other industries, and it's hard to find a successful development team that implements Scrum by the book. What you find most of the time is what is called "other Scrum flavors" and I think that's a problem in our industry. What many teams are doing isn't Scrum, but anything that has a short release cycle, a daily update in any form, and a retrospective is called Scrum. The irony is that most of the Silicon Valley and successful tech companies don't use Scrum at all. In fact many of them don't even label what they have as Agile. What is happening right now is many companies wasting lots of time trying to implement Scrum by the book until they fail and move on to something that they call a Scrum flavor. I think we should stop calling it Scrum so others don't have to repeat the same mistake again and again. If a team fails, Scrum compares it to its book and says the team failed because they didn't implement Scrum properly. And when a team with one of those so-called "Scrum flavors" is successful, Scrum takes all the credit. I personally think we should kill Scrum. We shouldn't advocate it and we shouldn't call any team with a daily update a Scrum team. Many successful tech companies don't use Scrum, but they aren't vocal about it.