How lovely, Cliff, to see you back on my page. Thank you! Much appreciated!

Your point that many developers "would not choose to work with Scrum if they could help it" may be right. Of course I know that. Everyone does. Like jazz musicians: spending most of our time in a cave practicing riffs, "deeply focused on getting our thing to work, and if it intersects with someone else's thing, then we want to talk to that person, but then be left alone."

Good for us if that's how it works for us, bravo.

The thing is we might create a lovely tune but we won't ever be doing bebop that way. Scrum is not a rhythm, but a pattern for co-creation, like musicians playing in band. All their riffs and solos art part of a co-created piece of music.

That's why musicians assemble ("scrum"), align, and get things done together.

Everybody loves them loner geniuses. Only they are impossible to co-create with if you let them be. That's what Scrum tries to get some balance in: let them geniuses spread out and create wizardly riffs on their own, but at least offer them a joint and a regular meetup where they align for bebop.

Stay tuned, Cliff! Let's talk some more - if both of us can spare the time to come and Scrum together here on Medium :)