I've got a pleasure to watch this Scrum thingy in action while consulting for one rather known company. To my eyes it was colossal waste of time and resources. I was an independent vendor so I did not really need to participate and only came to their offices every once in a while. Still out of curiosity went to few standups and that got me pretty depressed. In my eyes at least from what I saw the only "value" it brought was giving a job to a people who should not be let near software development process.