I think Scrum done well works rather well but retrospectives tend to be a lie.
Teams generally aren't allowed to stop doing sprints. In some places they aren't even allowed to pick start and end dates because management wants all teams on the same cadence.
If you use Jira - there's often all kinds of stupid imposed workflows. Mandatory fields depending on ticket types etc. If it's not useful to your team - tough shit, you don't have a choice.
Want to stop doing story points and use tshirt sizes? You can't, management monitors velocity as performance indicator.
Once you've had a few suggestions shot down because of top-down mandates, why even bother with retros?
Basically, scrum is very frequently a top-down management technique and teams aren't actually self-organizing because management can't deal with 10 teams each doing things their own way.
Teams generally aren't allowed to stop doing sprints. In some places they aren't even allowed to pick start and end dates because management wants all teams on the same cadence.
If you use Jira - there's often all kinds of stupid imposed workflows. Mandatory fields depending on ticket types etc. If it's not useful to your team - tough shit, you don't have a choice.
Want to stop doing story points and use tshirt sizes? You can't, management monitors velocity as performance indicator.
Once you've had a few suggestions shot down because of top-down mandates, why even bother with retros?
Basically, scrum is very frequently a top-down management technique and teams aren't actually self-organizing because management can't deal with 10 teams each doing things their own way.