---
title: "Scrum sucks."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/scrum-sucks--atibjgzft
source_url: https://blog.mb-consulting.dev/scrum-sucks-9960011fc5cf
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2024-01-29T09:35:10.711Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:20:02.615Z
tags: ["agile", "leadership", "project-management", "scrum"]
reading_time: 11
upvotes: 67
comments: 6
language: en
---

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# Scrum sucks.

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 11 min read · 67 upvotes · 6 comments

## Summary

This post discusses the flaws in the implementation of Scrum and suggests ways to make it work effectively. It emphasizes the importance of flexibility, collaboration, and focusing on results in order to truly embody the Agile philosophy.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@esteban31** · 5 upvotes

> Very interesting article!
> "Once you set a static metric, people will gradually adapt to go around it." => so true! (see [Goodhart's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law))
> "Way of work should be defined at a team level by its people, not by the company." => easy to say, hard to do😬 but i agree.

**@rawo** · 0 upvotes

> I might got the article wrong but this „Way of work should be defined at a team level by its people, not by the company” is not a flaw of the scrum framework. This is the problem of people adopting and understanding the scrum in a bad way. Burndown charts, velocity, and story points are not defined by scrum guide at all.
> So, The problem described in the article is more about incompetence of people adopting the scrum than the framework it self.
> If software development is measured by deadline, time, velocity, and being occupied then no matter which framework will be used, the process will be...

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Tags: [#agile](https://daily.dev/tags/agile), [#leadership](https://daily.dev/tags/leadership), [#project-management](https://daily.dev/tags/project-management), [#scrum](https://daily.dev/tags/scrum)

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