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Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

Re: Just maybe?

It's been my experience that "agile" and "scrum" are synonyms to most organizations. I've been to "Agile 101" classes taught my my company and they only cover scrum.

Re: Just maybe?

I've had just the opposite experience. We had scrum foisted upon us in 2007 as well. It resulted in endless useless meetings. The daily stand-up is just a daily status meeting for micro-management purposes. The sprint is an artificial deadline (with no basis on actual deadlines) one has to make every two or three or whatever length "sprints" you have. Sprint planning and story pointing is pointless (pun intended), because no one has a clue how hard it is going to be to get a task done (I always vote "3" or "5" randomly). Managers wring there hands over "burn-down charts" lamenting that there aren't enough hours left in sprint to get the work done based on the estimates. And while the powers that be are supposed to wait until the next sprint to inject emergency work into the team's schedule, that never actually happens. And of all they scrum variations I've used in the 17 years since were ALL equally dysfunctional for different reasons. This abomination has made a career I used to enjoy into a slog I can't wait to retire from.