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Scrum stifles innovation. Whenever someone tries to introduce scrum to my team I just link them to DHH's thoughts on the matter, he sums it up far better than I

Scrum stifles innovation. Whenever someone tries to introduce scrum to my team I just link them to DHH's thoughts on the matter, he sums it up far better than I could hope to: https://nitter.net/dhh/status/1196856292683350016 https://nitter.net/dhh/status/1196856292683350016. "Carving up the work to fit into these little, disjointed stories that can fit within a oppressively short two-week sprint is just soul crushing. Agile was supposed to be liberating us from process, but its current incarnation doubled down on its alienation. Software developers and designers aren't happy doing assembly line work. Calling that work "stories" is the great con of much modern agile process. A story without a beginning, a middle, or an end is a shitty one. It's more like just a scene, shot out of sequence."

drewcoo 5y ago
A link to DHH seems like an appeal to a pretty faulty authority who has a closet full of strawmen. Honestly, a link like that makes me take scrum more seriously. Just my opinion, mind you, but your methodology might backfire.
- watwut 5y ago
  The original selling point of agile and scrum in particular was that developers will he motivated and happy. And that quote pretty much describes conflict with reality that notion had.
- cygned 5y ago
  Despite him not saying "Scrum", the structure he's describing is not Scrum anyway. It might be close to what some people understand when they say "Scrum", but it is not Scrum.
commandlinefan 5y ago
> aren't happy doing assembly line work On the contrary, I'm perfectly happy doing "assembly line work" - or rather, I'd be perfectly happy doing "assembly line work" for what I get paid as a software developer and just seeking fulfillment outside work. The problem isn't the assembly line work-ization of software development - if it were, this job would be a $10/hour unionized grind. The problem is that managers only know how to manage assembly-line work, so they insist that software development must be assembly-line-izable in spite of all the evidence that it isn't.

drewcoo 5y ago

A link to DHH seems like an appeal to a pretty faulty authority who has a closet full of strawmen. Honestly, a link like that makes me take scrum more seriously. Just my opinion, mind you, but your methodology might backfire.

watwut 5y ago
The original selling point of agile and scrum in particular was that developers will he motivated and happy. And that quote pretty much describes conflict with reality that notion had.
cygned 5y ago
Despite him not saying "Scrum", the structure he's describing is not Scrum anyway. It might be close to what some people understand when they say "Scrum", but it is not Scrum.

commandlinefan 5y ago

> aren't happy doing assembly line work On the contrary, I'm perfectly happy doing "assembly line work" - or rather, I'd be perfectly happy doing "assembly line work" for what I get paid as a software developer and just seeking fulfillment outside work. The problem isn't the assembly line work-ization of software development - if it were, this job would be a $10/hour unionized grind. The problem is that managers only know how to manage assembly-line work, so they insist that software development must be assembly-line-izable in spite of all the evidence that it isn't.