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My Rants on Scrum

It is like Churchill or Rooseveldt said something along the lines of: "Democracy is flawed, but nothing else works!". Which is also true. Democracy is the rule of the mob and pop culture, but all other governing styles leads to chaos, elitism or despotism. I do like a lot of the ideas behind Scrum, the agile thinking is great, the XPways do work. Everyone seems to jump on the Scrum bandwagon taking every element as gospel, and defending it religiously. But Scrum, has introduced many elements I don't like. I can see why, and what they can achive, but some I really detest. Unfortunetly, all other project managent styles have more flaws, so I think "Scrum matured", or some better Agile methodalogies in the future is a better solution. For Scrum and agile there are 3 sides to view from the pros and cons to its benefits.  Management  Developers  Customers It is mainly been developers who having been pushing Scrum as it will be better for customers,