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id: "prereq-agile-methodology"
type: "prereq"
source_timestamps: ["§ The \\\\\\\"Autonomous Scrum\\\\\\\""]
tags: ["agile", "management-theory"]
related: ["framework-autonomous-scrum"]
reason: "Necessary to understand the critical shift from advisory authority to decision authority in the Autonomous Scrum model."
sources: ["governance"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-governance"
originDay: 7
articleStem: "hbr-sig-59-consensus-decision-making"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/04/decision-making-by-consensus-doesnt-work-in-the-ai-era"
sourceTitle: "Decision-Making by Consensus Doesn’t Work in the AI Era"
---
# Understanding of Traditional Agile/Scrum

**Why required:** Necessary to understand the critical shift from advisory authority to decision authority in the Autonomous Scrum model.

The authors contrast their [[framework-autonomous-scrum]] with traditional agile methodology. A reader must understand that traditional scrums typically operate in an *advisory* capacity — recommending and escalating up a chain of command — to grasp why giving them 'permission to act' is a radical departure. Useful adjacent reference points (from enrichment): Amazon's 'two-pizza teams' and Single-Threaded Owners, and the Spotify squads/tribes/chapters/guilds model.