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Agile Scrum was created as a response to Waterfall. Waterfall was, generate a giant spec, like 50-100 pages, then set the developers on it.
by idoh 6y ago
Agile Scrum was created as a response to Waterfall. Waterfall was, generate a giant spec, like 50-100 pages, then set the developers on it.
- gregjor 6y agoUh, no. That’s a caricature of the process. Waterfall projects can have all of the important attributes of agile: collaboration with customers, feedback and refinement, intermediate deliverables, etc. They don’t always work that way, but neither does agile. The main difference is the amount of analysis and design done in advance of writing code, and the relative emphasis placed on formalities and artifacts. In practice agile, especially variations of Scrum, have grown to include rituals (stand-ups, sprint planning) and artifacts, which can turn those projects into coding with no guardrails or clear destination.
- idoh 6y agoFair enough, I didn't mean to imply that the entirety of waterfall was just that one line. The point was that scrum, with all of its flaws, was meant to correct a then existing perceived bad practice.