‘Just found out that there are indeed people scrumming in Portugal. This is excellent news for someone like me, someone who has seen frustrated all of his honest attempts to use ANY methodology whatsoever.
Scrum is a process, a tried and proven way to improve efficiency in development and not just that. I subscribe to it has beeing a true helper for any team.
There was also this managemnet concept called XPM (Extreme Project Management) which I tried to implement in a results driven organization but you guessed it: the business owners preferred the old and tried method of the whip, coupled with the Captain Kirk concept of management* 
Knowing this, one would understand why I am not actually a believer in the idea that implementing processes that are rational, proven and efficient – albeit having acronyms that are somewhat funny – will ever be successful in this country’s business environment. Business owners and chiefs, the real big players here, seem to simply be stopped in time and very, very retrograde (not just conservative, they seem to dislike or mistrust even what was “new” back when!).
But I heard GuestCentric Systems is going fully Scrum, at least. So, congratulations guys, thumbs up!! However, let’s realize they are not exactly “from” Portugal, are they? LOL!!!
Well, pardon my bitterness, all of you well intentioned and forward thinking portuguese friends and unknown scentient forms out there, but since I arrived in 2005 there’s very little I have seen around here that could make me change my opinion. But I am still here, still trying, still strugling. And, chicken!, doing exactly what I am commanded to do. I need to put “the bacon” on the table, although I was never a Pig in Scrum anywhere I worked for.
Nevertheless, consolation and vindication is coming my way in unexpected forms. Imagine that the company I work for, indeed does have expertise and people like Andre Torgal that do know how to Scrum for real!!!
Cheers to you all!
* A simple and irrational way to get things done. Kirk asks the question to his Chief Engineer, Scotty: “How long to have it repaired, Scotty?” to what the Engineer replies “Putting all resources and effort to it, Sir, the best I can do is to have it done in two days…” to what Kirk commands, with no hesitation: “You have TEN minutes. Get it done.”