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> Suddenly, what does that mean when your team only ships 5 arbitrary points? In my experience, it means some developers failed to game the system that particu
by bighi 10y ago
> Suddenly, what does that mean when your team only ships 5 arbitrary points?
In my experience, it means some developers failed to game the system that particular time.
But you can be sure there were many other problematic moments in previous sprints, but the developer could hack together an ugly mess of a code to avoid the shame of failing in front of everyone in a meeting, and dragging the team's points down.
Because the unwritten thing about points is that they are used to shame people. In public. Sometimes not explicitly, but the feeling is there. It's always there.
- vibrato 10y agoScrum really is shame driven development in my experience
- patothon 10y agoYes. That's why, if you have to work with and/or manage a scrum team, making velocity not the focus of the sprint is step 1 for a sane process. We count points, but it's not a contract. We try to reach the points, but it's not a contract. In my parent comment: _First of all, you have to remove velocity as a goal for your team. It's easy to game, and it de-incentivizes finding a _predictable_ velocity, which is the goal of that tool._