> "We are simply caught in a rat race and not able to make a short break in order to look at and learn from all the things that happened around us, maybe even before our time."
But isn't that exactly what Scrum wants you to do? After every sprint, you spend some time to reflect, look at how you're working, look at the bigger picture, etc.
Scrum is by no means perfect; it's a tool, not the infallible silver bullet the author wants it to be. If you misuse the tool, you're still going to get wrong results, but that's the same with every other method.
The real question is: is there a better way to do it that can easily and reliably be implemented by large corporations? I think the popularity of Scrum is probably due to it being more successful than what was used before.
It might not be truly Agile, but for large corporations, being truly Agile may be a bit much to ask. They need reliability and reproduceability, and that means they're always going to need some focus on processes and procedures, and can't always rely on people who might leave or have something happen to them. Not that Scrum is always a good fit for those processes and procedures, but it does help make it appealing for large companies, and at least it puts a good part of the process in the hands of the people who will be using it.
But isn't that exactly what Scrum wants you to do? After every sprint, you spend some time to reflect, look at how you're working, look at the bigger picture, etc.
Scrum is by no means perfect; it's a tool, not the infallible silver bullet the author wants it to be. If you misuse the tool, you're still going to get wrong results, but that's the same with every other method.
The real question is: is there a better way to do it that can easily and reliably be implemented by large corporations? I think the popularity of Scrum is probably due to it being more successful than what was used before.
It might not be truly Agile, but for large corporations, being truly Agile may be a bit much to ask. They need reliability and reproduceability, and that means they're always going to need some focus on processes and procedures, and can't always rely on people who might leave or have something happen to them. Not that Scrum is always a good fit for those processes and procedures, but it does help make it appealing for large companies, and at least it puts a good part of the process in the hands of the people who will be using it.
tl;dr: Scrum is not perfect, but what is?