most of the discussions on SCRUM come from people running scrum or commenting on scrum as employees. scrum exists because companies are paying salaries for eng

most of the discussions on SCRUM come from people running scrum or commenting on scrum as employees. scrum exists because companies are paying salaries for engineers and dont want them sort of milling about doing random sh*t all day in an aimless fashion. my experience is most engineers are incredibly passive and just want a paycheck and are barely productive. except management is often completely clueless / non-technical / not interested in technical topics / view technical stuff as being "beneath them" sort of like taking out the garbage or cleaning the windows. solution is to create a pseudo-science pretend self-governed democracy. let the engineers manage themselves! genius! It is a zero-interest rate management cop-out for badly led highly mediocre companies with a lot of dead weight. make the over-hired engineers engage in a lot of activity so they seem to be making progress. scrum needs to be looked at in context of past economic conditions and the structure of the market. lots and lots and lots of engineers work in these environments of non-technical management who just want to see "activity that looks like progress" and dont have any intention of getting more engaged or involved than that. compare to startups where the ceo is often an engineer and doing the work themselves I think scrum is going to die a horribl death in a high interest rate environment with AI. the mediocre overpaid middle in tech is going to get a very hard re-evaluation so is mediocre middle management all of that needs to go away mediocre middle management and scrum and over-hired, bloated organizations are all phenomenon of low-interest rates. in a tight environment, I hope that talent is what matters and all that gets the chop. I think scrum will be categorized with "sitting in cubicles" as a productivity method in the near future.