> In 1986, SCRUM consisted of choosing an elite team of experts, throwing them into a room, and telling them to solve a problem with seemingly impossible goals.

> In 1986, SCRUM consisted of choosing an elite team of experts, throwing them into a room, and telling them to solve a problem with seemingly impossible goals. I used to work in scientific research, and the concept there is exactly the same. And it works, I can confirm that! > It kills me that almost 30 years after this was proven to work, we're still trying to come up with new ways to differentiate existing processes. The problem is, in 1986 you talked about experts. What people have been trying to do lately, is to apply whatever methodology to average (or sub-average) developers and expect that the methodology itself increase substantially their productivity and the quality of their work. But it doesn't work, simply because it cannot work. Buying a book on Agile/SCRUM/whatever is much cheaper than investing on the competency your team, and you simply get what you paid for!