The only benefit of Scrum today is that it has a fixed set of rules so if you come from and old linear sequential methodology it is a great starting point for b

The only benefit of Scrum today is that it has a fixed set of rules so if you come from and old linear sequential methodology it is a great starting point for beginning thinking in agile terms. But as anybody will notice the rules of Scrum are inflexible and completely random in some areas and not very agile. That is why Scrum is pretty much dead. To use a methodology is extremely effective though. If you work with people with various knowledge and experiences in software development, it is must. I have seen companies go from Kanban back to cowboy coding and completely stopped producing anything at all that ended up in production.