Devops Is a Poorly Executed Scam – I’ve got to hand it to the Agile development guys — they were really good at liberating money out of organizations that all had trouble with something inherently difficult. The geniuses who developed Scrum and Extreme Programming executed masterfully; selling books and training; and they made some serious bank doing it. If you hang around Silicon Valley long enough, you know to applaud the hustle. It’s the classic Rainmaker scam. You pay a man to make it rain on your crops, and when it rains, he takes the credit. If it doesn’t rain, he comes up with an excuse that involves you paying more money.