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> My biggest criticism of Agile and Scrum is that it assumes that you can just plan out how a feature will work by sitting in a meeting and talking about it. Th

> My biggest criticism of Agile and Scrum is that it assumes that you can just plan out how a feature will work by sitting in a meeting and talking about it. Then spend the next two weeks implementing that plan. They don’t, there are ‘spikes’ that are just time spent researching or exploring or designing rather than implementing. If your scrum master is telling the team what they can’t or can’t do, or how they should do their jobs, they are doing it wrong. Their job is to help you plan and help you resolve impediments to your work. They aren’t your boss. The first thing in the manifesto is people over process, there should never be a case where some rule tells you that you can’t do the right thing. Formal Scrum is a nice way to organize ‘normal’ work, but there are lots of cases where you have to improvise, and the process should never get in the way of that.

GordonS 7y ago
> If your scrum master is telling the team what they can’t or can’t do, or how they should do their jobs, they are doing it wrong Unfortunately in my experience this does happen quite often. I've found the biggest issue with scrum is when people (usually the scrum master and PM) take hard-line, dogmatic views of scrum processes.
- profalseidol 7y ago
  There's this course in pluralsight that talks about two orgs that promote scrum. The other one seems to be giving out the wrong ideas. I think it's this one (copied from wikipedia): In 2002, Schwaber with others founded the Scrum Alliance[18] and set up the Certified Scrum accreditation series. Schwaber left the Scrum Alliance in late 2009 and founded Scrum.org which oversees the parallel Professional Scrum accreditation series.[19] I think it was Scrum Alliance that's giving out ideas like Burndown chart is required in scrum.

GordonS 7y ago

> If your scrum master is telling the team what they can’t or can’t do, or how they should do their jobs, they are doing it wrong Unfortunately in my experience this does happen quite often. I've found the biggest issue with scrum is when people (usually the scrum master and PM) take hard-line, dogmatic views of scrum processes.

profalseidol 7y ago
There's this course in pluralsight that talks about two orgs that promote scrum. The other one seems to be giving out the wrong ideas. I think it's this one (copied from wikipedia): In 2002, Schwaber with others founded the Scrum Alliance[18] and set up the Certified Scrum accreditation series. Schwaber left the Scrum Alliance in late 2009 and founded Scrum.org which oversees the parallel Professional Scrum accreditation series.[19] I think it was Scrum Alliance that's giving out ideas like Burndown chart is required in scrum.