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The ending is your actual point, which is excellent. With scrum being so oversold in companies, it's a hard sell though. So an article starting out with this pr
by loopz 7y ago
The ending is your actual point, which is excellent. With scrum being so oversold in companies, it's a hard sell though. So an article starting out with this premise would perhaps gain better traction:
"But actually, we’re now three degrees away from the original problem of trying to build the right thing. The team is focused on figuring out how much they can get done in a Sprint, not whether they are building the right thing. Scrum purists might argue that this is the purpose of the Sprint Goal, which should be agreed in advance.. but actually this is usually just a bunch of items from the backlog, shoe-horned into a sprint-sized chunk of time."
- bobm_kite9 7y agoAuthor here. Yes, the overall feeling I'm getting from the responses is a disappointment that I didn't get to this. Initially that had been my intent, but as I wrote it I realised I was trying to crowbar too much into a single article. However, I am pleased that people seem to agree with this article's diagnosis of the problem. The next article will build upon this one (and others in the series). Hopefully it will be equally well considered on HN, I am interested to see how it goes down.