---
title: "Why scrum is dumb"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-scrum-is-dumb-rnwhsetbb
source_url: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3599609/why-scrum-is-dumb.html
type: article
source: "InfoWorld"
published: 2024-11-06T09:03:12.177Z
updated: 2024-12-09T11:22:58.761Z
tags: ["agile", "project-management", "scrum"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 92
comments: 11
language: en
---

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# Why scrum is dumb

**[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 5 min read · 92 upvotes · 11 comments

## Summary

The author argues that scrum is ineffective and misaligned with agile principles, primarily due to its rigid structure and continuous cycle of sprints. They suggest a more flexible approach where work is broken into natural chunks, each completed in an appropriate time frame, and adapting to changes as they occur. This method emphasizes true agility over procedural adherence.

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## Community discussion

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**@outergod** · 26 upvotes

> The author has no idea what he's talking about.
>
> > Everything about scrum tries to squeeze a large peg into a small hole. Scrum creates a fixed-sized hole of a given chunk of time, takes a large wooden block of effort, and tries to make a series of small, properly sized blocks fit into that hole.
>
> From the Scrum guide:
>
> > Sprints are the heartbeat of Scrum, where ideas are turned into value.
> >
> > They are fixed length events of one month or less to create consistency. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.
>
> The Scrum Team can change the length of...

**@mr\_superhaggis** · 10 upvotes

> Counter-point: it isn’t dumb.

**@buckrussell** · 9 upvotes

> counter-counter-point: it IS dumb, but only to the people who do not need it.
>
> different needs require different solutions. so it's valid to say both.

**@makskulicki** · 5 upvotes

> The thing actor talks about is not a scrum in its essence, but random corpo implementation of scrum, which is usually stupid indeed

**@adriaanp** · 3 upvotes

> In my experience, when a team is practicing scrum, they come up with their own ideas of what scrum is, which creates friction that leads to these kinds of feelings.

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

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