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The complexities of human interaction implies that every system will fail to take into account realities. It's a sociological version of Gödel's incompleteness

The complexities of human interaction implies that every system will fail to take into account realities. It's a sociological version of Gödel's incompleteness theorems - either the system is comprehensive and inconsistent, or it's consistent but not comprehensive. Even so, if every model will fail, which one minimizes the quantity and quality of failure? The solution still seems to be, "let's be aware of our system, whether formal, informal, or somewhere in between, and be conscious designers of our interactions with others in the social organization of software development." It requires system-level thinking, which at face value, appears to be something that engineering folks would love to sink their teeth into. At the very least, Agile recognizes that time, features, and effort exist in relation to each other, and that if one[effort] is held constant, social interactions are constrained in a number of important ways.

psunavy03 3y ago
Which is why Scrum in particular is express about being "purposely incomplete." It's intended to leave wiggle room for people to adapt it to their context. Unfortunately mediocre people and mediocre organizations take this as a license to fill the gaps with inane bullshit and call it "Scrum" or "Agile," instead of mindfully determining what makes sense in their context.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
  No no no! Scrum doesn’t get to escape that easily! This is blatant retconning by the Scrum folks. Look at how the scrum guide has changed over the years and you’ll see clear evidence of “fine, we’ll stop being so prescriptive”. And there’s such an essentially-first-party certificate culture associated with Scrum, a completely self-imposed one, that it’s the NORM for Scrum practitioners to be prescriptivist rule-followers lacking any sense of nuance.
  - psunavy03 3y ago
    The plural of "anecdote" is not "data," and just because you feel strongly about something does not make you an authority on the topic or make it universally true.

psunavy03 3y ago

Which is why Scrum in particular is express about being "purposely incomplete." It's intended to leave wiggle room for people to adapt it to their context. Unfortunately mediocre people and mediocre organizations take this as a license to fill the gaps with inane bullshit and call it "Scrum" or "Agile," instead of mindfully determining what makes sense in their context.

cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
No no no! Scrum doesn’t get to escape that easily! This is blatant retconning by the Scrum folks. Look at how the scrum guide has changed over the years and you’ll see clear evidence of “fine, we’ll stop being so prescriptive”. And there’s such an essentially-first-party certificate culture associated with Scrum, a completely self-imposed one, that it’s the NORM for Scrum practitioners to be prescriptivist rule-followers lacking any sense of nuance.
- psunavy03 3y ago
  The plural of "anecdote" is not "data," and just because you feel strongly about something does not make you an authority on the topic or make it universally true.