Its easy to find official blog posts of these companies and other major enterprises describing how they use Scrum, that are much more recent than 10 years ago.
I'm shocked you've never heard of the "Spotify Model" which has been compared to Scrum@Scale. Ask your friend!
> [Squads] are a self-organizing team and decide their own way of working – some use Scrum sprints, some use Kanban, some use a mix of these approaches.
> The foundation of the model is the squad and it acts like a Scrum team.
The Spotify model resembles Scrum@Scale which is why I mentioned it. Scrum is a development methodology.
> Each of the squad has complete freedom to choose their agile methodology. So some squad uses Scrum sprints, some use Kanban and some uses mix of scrum and kanban. Sometimes to release early, squads apply the Most viable product (MVP) technique too.
The Spotify model is not related to Scrum. It organizes people. How those people manage their work is not related to how the people are organized. An article explaining the Spotify model in terms of Scrum isn’t a counterexample to that.
Is there only one "The Official" ScrumBan, or can anyone make their own?
Also, I just talked to my friend who is an Eng manager at Apple, and they said almost no one uses Scrum at Apple anymore. Some teams use some of the methodology, but even those teams got rid of their Scrum masters.
Wait, that contradicts what you just said. Your friend that works there hasn't mentioned Scrum in 10 years!
Thanks for confirming that there are teams at Apple using Scrum, like I said. Dev teams at Apple are pretty insular, I'm surprised your friend knows about what every team is doing! Hopefully we can trust them more than your friend who was wrong about Spotify.