Pragmatic Engineer survey of 100+ companies: Scrum is conspicuously absent from Big Tech
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-09-21
Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer) revisits his deep-dive on how tech projects actually run, based on a survey spanning 100+ companies. Key finding: Scrum is nearly absent from Big Tech.
The piece covers how Big Tech organizes project execution, how organizational structure shapes delivery, why the popular framework disappeared there, and what teams outside that model can take away. It opens with the author's firsthand experience of going all-in on Scrum at Skype in 2012.
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