Nah, most of Scrum is fine [0], even insightful I'd say, but yeah, the certification industry that drives its adoption is a scam. The problem is that nowadays

Nah, most of Scrum is fine [0], even insightful I'd say, but yeah, the certification industry that drives its adoption is a scam. The problem is that nowadays people have to be in the software field whether they want to be in it or not. So you have the perfect storm of people who believe in good old fashioned taylorism ("scientific" management) clashing with people who ultimately reject much of that thinking. Basically, traditional management realized that it will be obsolete and power is shifting to a bunch of "nerds". So what basically happened is that they appropriated a lot of the nerds' concepts and methodologies in order to regain power. [0] Check this out, http://scrumbook.org/ http://scrumbook.org/ - Take your time to look at the interlinked patterns and the rationale behind them, there is some worthwhile stuff in there.