> Personally, I have never seen SCRUM or any agile approach working in a project setup ever.
they work great. Just their goal isn't successful delivery of the project (on that aspect they fail spectacularly). The goal of SCRUM/Agile/Lean - ie. what they are designed for - is extremely low latency and high observability by the management (and thus the management just loves it, total micromanagement under the guise of team freedom). That all comes naturally at a great cost of throughput. I.e. the "watched pot" situation. The project direction is changed very fast, there is a lot of activity, the bees are overly busy, the management always know and able to report the current progress state, while the project is hardly really moving toward the actually successful state.
> Personally, I have never seen SCRUM or any agile approach working in a project setup ever.
they work great. Just their goal isn't successful delivery of the project (on that aspect they fail spectacularly). The goal of SCRUM/Agile/Lean - ie. what they are designed for - is extremely low latency and high observability by the management (and thus the management just loves it, total micromanagement under the guise of team freedom). That all comes naturally at a great cost of throughput. I.e. the "watched pot" situation. The project direction is changed very fast, there is a lot of activity, the bees are overly busy, the management always know and able to report the current progress state, while the project is hardly really moving toward the actually successful state.