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It's not Scrum. Scrum wasn't even the first. (I think it was XP.)

The problem is all the "Agile methodologies". Every single one.

(Also, notice that "Agile methodology" as an idea is already against the first principle there.)



Yes. As soon as you're conducting ritual ceremonies such as daily standups, you're no longer agile.


It is the pseudoscience of Taylorism and 'Scientific management', not the manifesto, which is really just a repackaged form of modern organization theory.

The DOD agile BS PDF covers most of it.

https://media.defense.gov/2018/oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/dib...

Once the consultant forms start to monetize the GAO's agile assessment guide things should get better IMHO.

Unless that gets co-oped somehow, which is possible.

How GM screwed up on the NUMMI plant shows how it is a Taylorism problem if you want something outside of tech.

But even TOGAF and ITIL are adjusting because the feds will require it.

Taylor measured people loading pig iron into train cars, faked a lot of things and the BCG/McKinsey types packaged and solid it.

It has always been BS, is part of why the US manufacturing sector failed as well as why the USSR failed.

Pretty hard to kill but it needs to die.




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