In a session at the Agile Alliance Conference in 2012, Jeff Sutherland, one of the creators of the Scrum method, commented that perhaps as many as 70 percent of the companies he visited were performing scrumbut. “We are doing Scrum, buut we don’t do daily builds, buut we don’t do daily standups, buut we don’t do….” As Jeff observed, they clearly weren’t doing Scrum. When performed rigorously across an organization’s development teams, Scrum and other agile or DevOps methods can provide the benefits of standardized processes characteristic of a level 3 capability. However, when these methods
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