The article doesn't really resonate with my experiences of working with good Scrum teams.
It does, however, sound very much like some organisations I've been involved with who have adopted one or two of the Scrum practices, but haven't really understood the core of the process.
Scrum teams should be relentlessly focussed on improvement.
It's a deliberately minimal process which can help in of itself since everything outside of that process is open to question and change.
Even ignoring that of the five regularly scheduled events in Scrum two, arguably three, are specifically focussed on self-assessment and improvement (Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective are the definite ones. I'd also argue for the Daily Standup/Scrum because of the focus on obstacles in the way of progress).
Now there are certainly criticisms that I have of Scrum - but thinking folk are stupid and not fixing problems are very definitely not on the list. If a team does not focus on improving their process every sprint then they are not doing Scrum by definition.
It does, however, sound very much like some organisations I've been involved with who have adopted one or two of the Scrum practices, but haven't really understood the core of the process.
Scrum teams should be relentlessly focussed on improvement.
It's a deliberately minimal process which can help in of itself since everything outside of that process is open to question and change.
Even ignoring that of the five regularly scheduled events in Scrum two, arguably three, are specifically focussed on self-assessment and improvement (Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective are the definite ones. I'd also argue for the Daily Standup/Scrum because of the focus on obstacles in the way of progress).
Now there are certainly criticisms that I have of Scrum - but thinking folk are stupid and not fixing problems are very definitely not on the list. If a team does not focus on improving their process every sprint then they are not doing Scrum by definition.