You don’t need Scrum, a Scrum Master, or even Kanban - you need a collective of people who cover the core skills needed to do the job and crucially people who the right mindset to learn, adapt, and constructively challenge each other.

Mindset, principles, and environment will always trump following any process or framework as you always have to find the optimal route to delivering value and have to learn how to deal with uncertainty and blockers as and when you face them.

I work with a team like this and I learn from them every day and it makes work fun, and we deliver value, which is what it’s all about - outcomes and value and those come from great working environments and giving people space and support.

That to me is what agile should be about and how I see it, not about the frameworks and nuances of them - take what works and apply things in context.