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Scrum is just one offshoot of Agile. It has become laden with jargon, Scrum-specific job titles, and rapidly trained Scrum Masters. This obscures the fact that
by Zigurd 3y ago
Scrum is just one offshoot of Agile. It has become laden with jargon, Scrum-specific job titles, and rapidly trained Scrum Masters.
This obscures the fact that a competent team can start with traditional jobs and roles and use The Manifesto for Agile Software Development as their guide, with some modifications for a remote, Slack/Zoom world.
Don't be afraid to dump Scrum.
- cylinder714 3y agoIt seems like scrum is the very antithesis of "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools."
- Scubabear68 3y agoAgreed. This is more or less what we did in the 90s, deliver quickly and incrementally with right-sized processes. Scrum adds so much complexity, heavy processes and endless meetings it is truly incredible.
- switchbak 3y agoThe XP folks crystallized what a lot of people were doing (in ad-hoc ways) and documented it so others could reuse the learnings more easily. [There's more to it than that, but that's the core of it] I think that's in-line with what you described above. I also think it captured what a lot of folks were trying to do at the time: shorten feedback cycles with RAD, etc. Scrum - or whatever it is that we see in the wild that's called Scrum - is exactly how you (and the article) describe. The way I see it, the corporate types were scared of the devs actually being self-managing/self-optimizing teams, and decided to turn to an Agile-Lite that they could sell as being new and shiney, but it's still the same command-and-control distrustful crap under the hood. (Non-Scrum) Agile did a great job at the lower layers (devs, facilitators), but nothing can change that much if you don't affect the management and exec levels.