Agile techniques make good teams perform better. Scrum makes it impossible to hide from problems for more than a month. It doesn't solve the problems for you.

Agile techniques make good teams perform better. Scrum makes it impossible to hide from problems for more than a month. It doesn't solve the problems for you. Scrum makes failures faster so that errors are minor mistakes instead of yearlong catastrophes. Scrum is not micromanaging, it explicitly empowers the contributing team members to manage themselves and each other. No one ever sold agile as a way to make bad teams perform well. I have seen Scrum (as practiced by a team that read a short book and sat in a one day training and bought in to it with an open mind) make made my team deliver better work in a more satisfying way.