Originally published at theendofcoding.com . The Scrum Guide is 13 pages. The terms "user story" and "epic" never appear in it. The word "velocity" appears zero times. Story points have not been mentioned since 2010. Planning poker, Fibonacci, "As a user, I want," Given/When/Then, two-week sprints — none of it is in there. What most engineering organizations call Scrum is a folk overlay assembled on top of the Guide over twenty years by books, tools, and consultants. Most of what your team fights about at sprint planning was never Scrum. This is not a critique of Scrum. The Scrum Guide is fine. The bloat this article catalogs was added to Scrum — by mid- and large-sized enterprises that grafted on practices from books, tools, and consultants left and right until what took ten minutes to read became a process that takes three hundred pages to document. Most of it was added with good intentions. None of it was ever required. That bloat is what compounds under AI acceleration.…