Iteration doesn’t require infinite money and this sort of work more than pays for itself.

The last time I used it, which is probably eight times now, I freed a team up to attack more entrenched tech debt problems by making them no longer afraid of deploying to run trails instead of waiting to do feature toggles once a release cycle.

Every adult programmer should be able to think of four things they can work on when nobody is telling them what to do for the next little while, and Scrum produces a lot of those. This is just one of the things I do. And when you get close to a quantum of useful improvement you can usually get a story or two on the board.

Fixing your processes is an axe sharpening exercise. If you’d rather be dismissive enough to register a complaint then I feel sorry for the teams you work on.