The same thing works the other way. People see and experience shit Scrum and then they No True Scotsman it to mean that all Scrum must be shit. It seems to me

The same thing works the other way. People see and experience shit Scrum and then they No True Scotsman it to mean that all Scrum must be shit. It seems to me that most American software companies use Cargo Cult Scrum. They basically take the terms and maybe read a blog about the processes and just wing it from there. The only way an Agile/Scrum process works if you bring in a consulting company that's expensive enough to make even the top brass buy into it. You can theoretically try to bring it in from the ground up, but it's really hard to do Agile when the rest of the company is either waterfall or flying by the seat of their pants.