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Basically, nothing in SCRUM helps empowering the grunts outside their own bubble, but SCRUM gives a lot of feel good things for management to expect from the bu

Basically, nothing in SCRUM helps empowering the grunts outside their own bubble, but SCRUM gives a lot of feel good things for management to expect from the bubble of grunts. It does nothing to solve fundamental issues inherently. But these fundamental issues are well known, so any method not addressing them is rather weak by default.

RamblingCTO 4y ago
Hm, I don't agree and see no real arguments here, sorry. I'll move on then, but thank you for the comment! I really hope you find the working environment you thrive in.
kitsune_ 4y ago
A slightly exaggerated point of view: but in a way, the problem with Scrum and Agile is that they have been appropriated by non-tech people because tech is where the money is at. If it wasn't Agile, it would probably be something else. I know "but that's not agile" is a tired meme at this point, but if you read something like for instance the pattern work by guys like Jim Coplien and Sutherland [1], then Scrum as outlined by these communities of practices sounds pretty sensible. Just some random excerpts: > Use Small Teams of people working on serialized work rather than striving for false parallelism. > The Development Team organizes itself to get its work Done. The Development Team is solely responsible for how it does its work. > Explicitly allot time for interrupts and do not allow more work than fits within the allotment. > Create ad-hoc “birds of a feather” groups for each area of significant enterprise core competency or developer interest, where interested parties can trade notes on technologies, domain knowledge, and processes that are key to enterprise advancement. etc. [1] http://scrumbook.org/ http://scrumbook.org/
- RamblingCTO 4y ago
  Yes, agreed. Also a nice book I quite like: Henrik Kniberg - Scrum and XP from the trenches

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Basically, nothing in SCRUM helps empowering the grunts outside their own bubble, but SCRUM gives a lot of feel good things for management to expect from the bu

by BlargMcLarg 4y ago

RamblingCTO 4y ago
Hm, I don't agree and see no real arguments here, sorry. I'll move on then, but thank you for the comment! I really hope you find the working environment you thrive in.
kitsune_ 4y ago
A slightly exaggerated point of view: but in a way, the problem with Scrum and Agile is that they have been appropriated by non-tech people because tech is where the money is at. If it wasn't Agile, it would probably be something else. I know "but that's not agile" is a tired meme at this point, but if you read something like for instance the pattern work by guys like Jim Coplien and Sutherland [1], then Scrum as outlined by these communities of practices sounds pretty sensible. Just some random excerpts: > Use Small Teams of people working on serialized work rather than striving for false parallelism. > The Development Team organizes itself to get its work Done. The Development Team is solely responsible for how it does its work. > Explicitly allot time for interrupts and do not allow more work than fits within the allotment. > Create ad-hoc “birds of a feather” groups for each area of significant enterprise core competency or developer interest, where interested parties can trade notes on technologies, domain knowledge, and processes that are key to enterprise advancement. etc. [1] http://scrumbook.org/ http://scrumbook.org/
- RamblingCTO 4y ago
  Yes, agreed. Also a nice book I quite like: Henrik Kniberg - Scrum and XP from the trenches