> is popular because it naturally provides a tunable paper trail for mediocre managers to cover their asses Honestly you're giving too much credit to mediocre

> is popular because it naturally provides a tunable paper trail for mediocre managers to cover their asses Honestly you're giving too much credit to mediocre managers. There's no intent behind adopting scrum. Mediocre managers adopt it because that's how you deliver, right? We're Agile and Agile = sprints. Also I'm too scared to not have precise dates when my management is asking for them, and these sprints are very practical to ask devs to provide high confidence estimates and dates so that we can know what will exactly happen in the next 6 months (I've heard of real professionals who can even plan for a year!). Change is scary!