Thank you for writing this. There is nothing in the world that has sucked more joy out of my life and made me question my continued existence as a software developer than complying with the mindless tedium of Scrum. From the ditto-heads harping on about velocity calculations to mindless unit test coverage fanatics to the needy psychotics who demand the daily stand-up, it has succeeded in vacuuming the joy out of the art of software development from my perspective. In contrast, the shops where software development was measured in terms of effective working software and high-quality releases were joyful places to be and made me realize that it is not software development that is broken but the processes that are intended to "fix" it.