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I don’t think many companies including where I work do real scrum but some weird micromanaged thing that has a lot of artifacts of scrum without really understa
by spaetzleesser 5y ago
I don’t think many companies including where I work do real scrum but some weird micromanaged thing that has a lot of artifacts of scrum without really understanding what agile should be.
In any case, when I am scrum master I put a lot of effort into keeping the backlog clean and making sure people or teams don’t block each other. I think that’s a valuable thing to do and can be close to a full time job. The big question is why we still have project managers and line managers who sort of do the same thing. Right now we have Jira to track things for the devs, but project managers use MS project so we have the same information in different tools which causes a lot of overhead to synchronize reporting.
- trutannus 5y agoA few places I've seen who do agile basically just practice standing in a circle and giving vague updates about progress ('stand ups') which nobody really listens to. If we disposed of all the scrum stuff around it, this would be effective as a way to handle questions that multiple people have an interest in. Which effectively is what it devolves into most times.