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Let's do a thought experiment. Imagine you have the same organization, same people, but a different methodology or perhaps no methodoligy at all. Would things

• Aurornis 3y ago
  I can't imagine how it could get any worse. It became really difficult to push back on or change anything because the Program Managers would band together and brandish their Scrum certifications, Scrum books, Scrum podcasts, and other credentials to show that we couldn't argue with them. Unfortunately, it worked with management. Wipe all of that away and let all of us work together toward a methodology that worked for everyone without Product Managers playing the Scrum card at every disagreement and I have no doubt it would have been better. In fact, I have some proof: There were a few pockets of small teams that got to operate outside of the Scrum madness either because their tasks were thought to be too small or temporary, or because they existed in islands of the org chart that were free from the reaches of the Scrum people. These small teams ran circles around everyone else, but that would come grinding to a halt as soon as their projects got assimilated into the Scrum catastrophe.