Is SCRUM really agile?

I follow Allen Holub in twitter and engage in some of his conversations. He believes it is possible to achieve full agility. 

I think he is right and it is possible. Same time I also realized it is your mindset which needs to adapt to the agile working. 

Let us for a moment forget the agile framework and think about business need. Change is part of life. In business too changes happen often. For a business to survive software needs to be in sync with the change to business. But the duration by which this sync should happen is different. If you consider a retail company, they do lot of sales campaigns. Their software should be ready for this campaign other wise they lose sales. But a company engaged in construction, does not requires same response time.

Need of agility is different for different business. And SCRUM delivers value for many companies with a business plan. It really does not matter if SCRUM is agile or not. As long as it responds to the business needs in time it is good for you.

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