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Has anyone ever worked on an 'agile' team that wasn't based around scrum or XP? I'd be interested in hearing your experiences.

• nessus42 11y ago
  Yes, we use Kanban where I work. We've been doing "continuous delivery" and "DevOps" for years. It's not bad, but I still don't really like scrums.
  • joeblau 11y ago
    What's "DevOps"?
    • nessus42 11y ago
      It's when you do software development for services that are constantly changing and need to be up all the time, and you are not only responsible for the development, but also for the services being up all the time.
• monknomo 11y ago
  I work on a non-dogmatic agile team. It works pretty well, but only because we have engaged, technically sophisticated stakeholders. We have a process, but the personal relationships and collaboration are really the meat of it. I think our process (which is fairly informal) would fall apart if different people tried it.
• joshuacc 11y ago
  Yes, I have worked on agile Kanban teams. The experience was more or less the following... 1. What's the next task/bug/story we should be working on? 2. Build & test it. 3. Ship it. 4. Rinse & repeat. We'd have meetings periodically to define new sets of tasks and figure out priorities, and/or to reflect on things that hadn't gone well. But these weren't necessarily scheduled on a regular basis. We did them as needed.