Comment by Arnt

At the time I worked at scrum shop, which was great at preventing some kinds of stupid waste of time, and IMO likely better overall than most of the anti-scrum brigade on HN. It was also free of inspired work. Most inspired work is crap. Someone's pet feature isn't customers' favourite feature… but scrum kills all of them, and that's too much.

That company later set up hackathons: A time-boxed escape from scrum, you can write whatever you want, and if the team likes the look of the hacky prototype afterwards it's adopted. Some things don't sound good before you write code, or some programmers can't tell the right story before writing code, not sure what, it doesn't matter anyway.