Tobias has written a wonderful article about Scrum and complexity:
Scrum: its place in the world
Scrum is not some newfangled, flash-in-the pan methodology for software development (it isn’t a methodology at all, but that is off-topic for this blog). Scrum is a very small part of a greater movement in the business world, and perhaps the world of organizations in general. We are at the beginning of a true Kuhnian paradigm shift away from a mechanistic way of thinking and towards a human one, a living one. The theory underlying this world-view is known as Complexity Science, and in particular the study of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). … more