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A number of major drug cartels would be at least on the Fortune 1000 if they were publicly traded corporations. They have management structures, accountants, IT and security professionals, logistics, HR practices, and so on...

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I'm wondering if they also have Scrum Masters and other consultants.

> I'm wondering if they also have Scrum Masters

If you want a really wacky use of scrum, try The Rhesus Chart [0] by Charles Stross, in which (mild spoiler) ...

a bunch of newly transformed vampires use scrum to quickly figure out how to acquire lots of fresh human blood without alerting the authorities by a trail of suspicious murders.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files#The_Rhesus_C...

Get those crime tasks into Jira!

I seem to recall a SalesForce scandal where a people trafficking operation was using SalesForce to manage their operation, and SalesForce may or may not have been aware / helped them configure etc

Edit: link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-27/fifty-wom...

Reminds me of my favorite scene from The Wire when the New Day Co-op is having a meeting and Stringer Bell grabs his secretary's notebook and screams at him "you're taking notes at a criminal conspiracy?!"

Jira itself is a crime

One of the best episodes of Archer touches on this topic - El Contador.

https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/El_Contador

And navies!

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