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> What I have a hard time understanding is why the ancient, simple communication form of text is given second seat. The truth of the matter is that, especially
by wtbob 10y ago
> What I have a hard time understanding is why the ancient, simple communication form of text is given second seat. The truth of the matter is that, especially under the constraint of distributed teams, it's difficult to beat text.
That's a really good point. I'd be excited to see what a team could do if each developer wrote a one-page memo about what he did and what he was going to do once an iteration, and a few sentences for each day. Throw 'em in a log, and they might even aid the retrospective.
- douche 10y agoWhat a fantastic history of a project that would be... Maybe we could just go back to .plan files, like Carmack.
- ljf 10y agoNot to take away from either point, and I largely agree, but written word is our 'mode 2' - a lot can be missed without talking face to face. Yes the issue with standups/scrum cereomonies is if people ignore all the 'other' info they are receiving and for what ever reason choose to ignore it. The real key for Scrum for me has to be not only teams that want to write good code, but teams that WANT to get better at working together. That takes the whole team. If the team aren't bought in to this, then I'm not sure which project management tool will work for them, but it sure isn't scrum!