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The whole scrum isn’t good or bad thing annoys me. It’s like the people who argue in favor of communism and when you point out its immense failure rate they say
by hacknat 8y ago
The whole scrum isn’t good or bad thing annoys me. It’s like the people who argue in favor of communism and when you point out its immense failure rate they say, “well that’s not really communism”. Scrum seems to have a very poor implementation rate and seems to draw the ire of most engineers.
- matthewmacleod 8y agoScrum seems to have a very poor implementation rate and seems to draw the ire of most engineers. Engineers are as responsible as any other actor for poor Scrum implementations. Scrum, or any agile method, isn't a silver bullet. It doesn't compensate for bad teams. It's something that teams can use to deal with some common software development issues. It's also not the only tool that can be used for that purpose. Developers pouring ire on "scrum" when they aren't practicing it in the first place are attacking the wrong target.
- throwaway84742 8y agoI also take issue with the term “agile” in general. I did not observe it to be any more “agile” than the good ol’ “pile of GitHub issues” method.
- cbsmith 8y agoProcess, design, and yes... governing is a series of trade offs. You can certainly talk about the merits of the trade offs and whether they are appropriate for a given context, but a critique that fails to understand the trade offs and speaks in strict good/bad interpretations comes across as terribly naive.