Scrum is not the same as agility
Running sprints and retrospectives doesn't make a team agile. Agility is first and foremost a manifesto, its values and its principles.
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Scrum is not the same as agility. If the Agile Manifesto, its four values and its twelve principles aren’t applied, then there simply is no agility.
The framework is not the value
Believing that sprints, retrospectives, sprint planning or planning poker are agility is a mistake. You can be perfectly agile without using Scrum: it’s enough to rely on the values and principles of agility.
Conversely, using Scrum without embracing those values and principles isn’t being agile. The two can work very well together, but Scrum isn’t automatically agile, nor a guarantee in itself.
Still a way to go
I’ve met people who know Scrum very well but had never read the Agile Manifesto and knew neither its values nor its principles.
Before claiming to be agile, it’s worth going back to the source: the manifesto. That’s where it all begins.