It has no good ideas. All the ideas that appear good are taken from agile, which 20 years ago WAS good. But then the process managers came in, the management seeking clarity on delivery dates, and engineers who got into it for a good job seeking ways to avoid doing real work because they’re actually not into engineering. It’s a morass of everything awful about stupid management cargo cult bs meant to emulate but not understand excellent engineering culture, with roles meant to keep project managers employed, and overriding everything stupid “rituals” to try to measure velocity and delivery dates for leaderships need to control. It delivers none of what agile promises because it is satisfying the needs that makes waterfall so slow.

The more skilled I become over the decades the more I prefer either Hickey’s hammock-driven development or a simple kanban setup.

The idea, and especially its unconditional forcing down the throat, that you can run marathon faster by running it in 100m sprints. That idea is wrong as it has been shown many time in practice, yet even the slightest doubt of that idea is squashed. Scrum is basically an ideology/cult, and as typical for such it is built on a lie - it is sold to rank-and-file as performance improving whereis its real goal is improving reporting to the manager at the cost of rank-and-file's performance, the manager's convenience at observing the status even if the things are relly moving much slower as a result. It is similar to how in a religious cult people would be sold on supposedly reaching nirvana/etc. while in reality the guru/pastor/etc. would be abusing them financially/morally/physically/etc.

Scrum forces you to package your work into daily sound bites. It pull your focus elsewhere and reframes your work in a wasteful way where you are always cutting off the corners because of how it affects your 30 second daily advertisement.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35857463