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Sure. You can have daily sprints if you like --- if you know what you're doing. The rule with frameworks is this: the more time you spend thinking and screwing

Sure. You can have daily sprints if you like --- if you know what you're doing. The rule with frameworks is this: the more time you spend thinking and screwing around with the framework, the more you're either doing it wrong or it's hurting more than helping. Scrum/Agile should just work, just like your C compiler just works. It's a tool that operates almost invisibly in the background while you make stuff people want. If it takes a long time to work with it, or you spend a lot of time fussing with it or arguing over whether you're doing it right or not? You've got something backwards somewhere. People end up with long sprints and tons of meetings either usually because they don't understand what they're doing or they're doing it the wrong way. Personally I prefer week or less sprints. Anything else tends to grow a bunch of meeting BS over time that's non-productive.

TheCoelacanth 9y ago
That is a completely unrealistic expectation. There is no human process that "just works". People are not computers. Scrum/Agile can help competent people who want to improve get better at delivering software that is valuable to their users. No process will magically turn incompetent people with no interest in improving into a productive software team.
- DanielBMarkham 9y ago
  You are misunderstanding what I'm saying. I never said the purpose of Agile/Scrum was to turn incompetent people with no interest in improving into a productive software team. That's not the goal. That was never the goal. You know, you can spend a lot of time mucking around with your C compiler also if you don't know what you're doing. The goal of your C compiler isn't to make you a programmer. It's to help people who already know how to program do it better/faster. Process doesn't replace software engineering. It takes people who already know software engineering and lets them move as quickly as possible.

TheCoelacanth 9y ago

That is a completely unrealistic expectation. There is no human process that "just works". People are not computers. Scrum/Agile can help competent people who want to improve get better at delivering software that is valuable to their users. No process will magically turn incompetent people with no interest in improving into a productive software team.

DanielBMarkham 9y ago
You are misunderstanding what I'm saying. I never said the purpose of Agile/Scrum was to turn incompetent people with no interest in improving into a productive software team. That's not the goal. That was never the goal. You know, you can spend a lot of time mucking around with your C compiler also if you don't know what you're doing. The goal of your C compiler isn't to make you a programmer. It's to help people who already know how to program do it better/faster. Process doesn't replace software engineering. It takes people who already know software engineering and lets them move as quickly as possible.