My current company is using Scrum to develop softwares. To me, it is a set of practices and tools which enhances communication, collaboration, trusts, etc between members of a team.
What people are still debating is that, which one, Scrum or Lean is better. I said, why not both? To me, the term Agile has been broaderned to bear many meanings. It points to a lot of processes. But under the hood. It is still 4 statements and 12 principles of Agile Manifesto. Everything else is just a technique. We can decompose Scrum or Lean into techniques and combines several ones to form a new method. To see if it works, we have to try it. But in the end, they are just tools.
Hi,
If you’re new to Scrum, then you might be interested in this post: http://www.pmhut.com/why-i-hate-scrum-daily-stand-up-meetings , it’s about the experience of someone using Scrum for a long time, and why he hates it.