That's the theory. In practice it became a way to cargo cult those things with bureaucratic rituals. This was completely the fault of scrum for being highly pr

That's the theory. In practice it became a way to cargo cult those things with bureaucratic rituals. This was completely the fault of scrum for being highly proscriptive about the process. It's like teaching somebody to program with rote learning or something. It just fundamentally doesn't work because the core of the process requires human ingenuity, creativity and freedom to work and by having a rote process those things are inhibited.