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Scrum won out IMO because it's an awesome word and conjures up subliminal images of brute force pushing obstacles out of the way, bringing success to the team.
by abraae 7y ago
Scrum won out IMO because it's an awesome word and conjures up subliminal images of brute force pushing obstacles out of the way, bringing success to the team. Execs can relate to it without even knowing what it is.
- patothon 7y agoI actually think scrum won because of its multiple rituals that allowed most of middle managers and project managers to keep their job by recycling it.
- mlthoughts2018 7y agoI think it won out because the number one thing any kind of project management framework has to provide is ambiguous blame-avoiding fungibility to management. If a framework does not offer that, managers will politically subvert the policy-making process to rule out that framework. It’s the same reason why demonstrably value-additive, cost-effective prediction markets are rejected by managers despite evidence in their favor: it removes their ability to create ambiguous Dutch books out of different project deliverables and resort to exploiting subjective psychological biases of superiors to win money & status increases. Anything that holds them accountable to the actual measured result status of a deliverable can’t be tolerated. Scrum is just the by-product of corporate status-seeking evolutionary war games against in-house scientific thinking.
- chungleong 7y agoScrum won out because it's basically feudalism. It's great for those in the upper echelon.
- tamrix 7y agoScrum won because in reality not everyone is a wizz bang developer like your guys so make yourself out to be.
- Melchizedek 7y agoScrum (and other methods that try in vain to make developers replaceable cogs) won because it enabled bad developers to hide among the good ones, and avoid personal responsibility.
- goatinaboat 7y agoWhen I hear the word scrum I am always reminded that my school stopped playing Rugby because a kid in the next town got his back broken, in a scrum. So from then on we played football (soccer) in Rugby kit, until eventually all the kids had grown out of it, or left. Similarly, if you sprint and sprint and sprint you will collapse from exhaustion. I often wonder if they picked these words because they knew nothing at all about sports, of if there is a coded warning in them...