Is Scrum bigger than Agile?

Unfortunately I think the language is getting in the way here. Agile as first envisioned, is essentially the Lean manufacturing process applied to software. That being said, we can work backwards and see that Agile can be used for the entire organization in practically any industry. Now, SCRUM happens to be very closely aligned with Agile thoughts and methods, but SCRUM uses words and phrases that many business executives don't understand or don't like. This creates an immediate bias against SCRUM, when all you are trying to implement are proven Lean practices.

So, I say you cannot implement SCRUM - AS PRESCRIBED BY THE SCRUM ALLIANCE - in an organization that does not embrace Agile. The first thing that breaks is accountability between the team and the rest of the department or organization. Without the flow of trust Agile requires, the organization will never really let the team self organize and realize full efficiency.

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Michel, sorry but that is not correct. I was part of the group where Agile was born: USA DoD NSF/Agility Forum in 1990 and that was before the Manifesto exists (by the way I was part of that movement too because I was part lf the group of authors of DSDM version 1 and 2 working with Arie Van Bennekum). Agile was born as an "innovation" of Lean to be applied at enteprise wide from strategy formulation to strategy implementation. Agile and Lean are not the same.

Sergio, I agree that Agile and Lean are not the same. They have the same roots, and many of the processes, tools, techniques, etc are the same. For this discussion I probably over-simplified. SCRUM is to Agile as Agile is to Lean, perhaps? Nice to talk to a founder, by the way, I am a late comer to the game.