I think the blog mentions this, and I'm glad its not just another complaint listing the failings of Scrum as it exists at an unnamed company. But I would put fo

I think the blog mentions this, and I'm glad its not just another complaint listing the failings of Scrum as it exists at an unnamed company. But I would put forth that no process can save developers from pathological management with poorly conceived products and even not "having a process" will help. As long as NPD* continues to be a great indicator of success in gathering VC funding and upper management success, developers will be exposed to horrific work environments. These environments will be label 'Agile', 'Extreme' or whatever label can attract talent. No manner of 'Process X sucks' blog posts will change this. If the Hacker-News Scrum hating community comes up with a "better named process", or a successful manifesto advocating the 'end of processes', organizations led by sociopathic management will quickly adapt these slogans and then distort the environment to their likings. If management is beating you with sticks because you missed getting your story points done by end of sprint, the problem isn't a process that measures stories by points, and has biweekly sprints where velocity can be measured; its having management that is willing to beat developers with sticks. * Narcistic Personality Disorder