The fundamental thing I've realized while looking for "the optimal end-state process" is that it doesn't actually exist. Scrum is, for many development organiz

The fundamental thing I've realized while looking for "the optimal end-state process" is that it doesn't actually exist. Scrum is, for many development organizations, an incremental improvement over what they are doing now. The biggest problem that I have with Scrum (and all prescriptive methodologies) is that it's presented as a vision for the right end-state instead of a set of tools that you can use to help find the right process for your immediate context.