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define 'work'

• wynch 8y ago
  work could mean : - 'having a broad vision of a project & being able to anticipate', well, this seems unrelated to Scrum to me, Scrum might work, or not. The biggest error in Development management being 'estimates', which was partly solved in scrum by replacing hours/days/months with bananas/story points, but there is still some equivalence in people head. And estimates are WRONG. I've never been good at estimates, and I keep telling my employers that's not what they should be paying me for... - cutting a project in small iterations so that budget can be adapted / stopped at any time, and developers kept in check (because management don't trust them) : this is maybe the most compelling use-case for scrum / Agile methodologies. - having happy & productive developers: well this depends on what THEY like. Some people need structure to feel good, and Scrum can provide that. Others are more at ease with autonomy / being responsible for their work...