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Scrum is alright but shouldn't be taken to the extreme. We went from Waterfall Model, planning absolutely everything up-front, to the opposite extreme of planni
by jongjong 2y ago
Scrum is alright but shouldn't be taken to the extreme. We went from Waterfall Model, planning absolutely everything up-front, to the opposite extreme of planning nothing up-front. Somehow people think that's totally normal and still think process is everything.
I've been around the tech industry long enough to see companies dogmatically pursuing certain ideas only to switch to the opposite ideas later... And, at all times, everyone is 100% sure that this way is the only way it should be done. Nobody ever gets any credit for saying "Hang on, maybe we should find a middle ground."
The root problem is that most humans are a mix of crazy and stupid. We go from one crazy extreme to the opposite crazy extreme.
- donquichotte 2y agoI agree, but I have seen an implementation of a middle ground (Scaled Agile for Enterprises, SAFE) that combined the worst of both worlds, with quarterly, one-week, all-hands-on-deck mammoth PI (product increment) planning sessions down to the story point (whatever unit that was, apparently it has magical self-calibrating properties) that were thrown out of the window 4 weeks into the PI.
- jongjong 2y agoCombining the worst of both worlds is definitely a nutty thing to do! You need to use critical thinking and analysis when coming up with new processes. It's definitely possible to make use of the best of both worlds. Though you still need to synthesize and re-evaluate the whole. Though two wrongs don't make a right, two rights can sometimes make a wrong when combined.