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Now that I've been stuck actually working with agile in the field for 15-20 years, not sure I think we get to call that and Scrum cultish anymore. They're more
by geoelectric 6y ago
Now that I've been stuck actually working with agile in the field for 15-20 years, not sure I think we get to call that and Scrum cultish anymore. They're more just popular productivity footguns at this point.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoScrum exists to expand scrum. The role of scrum master is about scrum indoctrination. The authors of scrum created that role to make the methodology viral. The methodology is also vague enough to blame you for anything that goes wrong with it.
- geoelectric 6y agoAt the very least, I fully buy they created that role to create a secondary market training and certifying them.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoScrum works because Brawndo has electrolytes.
- Jon_Lowtek 6y agoit's what plants crave!
- djmips 6y agoback to reddit with ye
- steveBK123 6y agoTrue agile has never been tried!
- keithnz 6y agoagile wasn't really a process, just a manifesto. All scrum did was package itself as a marketing strategy to enterprises while the rest of the agile advocates face palmed and slowly walked backwards from "agile" as it became more and more poisoned. Shame really, Software Philosophers like Kent Beck kind of got lost in all that noise, who always emphasized the human aspect of software creation
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- geoelectric 6y ago100% agreed. I love the agile manifesto, but the core principles got lost when most of the companies twisted it into a status and sprint scheme only.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoYou can get the scrum certification without having ever done anything software related in your life.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoScrum is a way to generate progress reports and accountability. My current employer doesn't do it (they have a 'stand up' but it's just everyone telling what they're working on while nobody listens), and I have no clue when what will be finished - and neither does management. I mean for my current project which will probably keep me occupied until the end of the month, I got a design document with a pretty decent todo list, but someone had already Decided that it would take about 5 days. So far they don't seem confrontational or critical about it though, so idk, I guess they're okay with it.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoDocumentation is not a source of truth. Scrum reports = documentation. Sources of truth are: the implementation, the business, customer satisfaction. And if you want to go deeper: technical debt, developer satisfaction, developer retention. The more distracted you get with planning, the worse your product becomes and the more disempowered your developers become. Scrum can work only if it is kept down to earth. But as soon as product managers stop meeting with developers, you have entered the path to technical bankruptcy. Scrum is meant to promote collaboration between product manager and developers, but in most cases, product managers get away with avoiding this responsibility. And the reason is because scrum does not have provisions to keep product managers accountable... Scrum does not define real deliverables for product managers, therefore in practice it becomes the opposite of what it promotes.