What Scrum prescribes is such a tiny, tiny part of what it takes today to build multi-component products in a multi-product digital platform. Scrum is a distraction.

DevOps encourages an end-to-end “systems” focus — not a myopic focus on “my team”. DevOps is about end-to-end feedback loops, including validation in the market, and continuous end-to-end automated tests from the beginning (as I like to say, “Go end-to-end from the beginning”).

Lean is about the end-to-end value stream, and leadership, including Gemba walks — leaders getting in close to where the work is done, and having real conversations about it — not sitting up on high in an office issuing edicts.

Scrum is an okay team-level process, but its leadership model is wrong. Real servant leadership is needed. A true servant leader has both accountability and explicit authority — if you don’t believe me, read books on servant leadership: the ever-changing Scrum Guide has it wrong.