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Scrum, Agile, all overrated buzz words. This project management evangelists will never understand that methodologies won't make things happen. Motivation driv
by tferris 14y ago
Scrum, Agile, all overrated buzz words.
This project management evangelists will never understand that methodologies won't make things happen.
Motivation drives people. Not daily scrums, agile, obscure names or roles. Motivation comes through great people, a MVP mindset and none existant project managers, no methodology and just some basic tools like group chat, Github and whiteboards.
- alinajaf 14y agoIn an all technical team, sure. But any time you have to interface with normals, tools like Scrum are often the only thing standing between you and "That page that gets their facebook photos and creates a PDF collage out of them will only take you a few hours right?"
- tferris 14y agoScrum as an interface?? You are talking about good specifications/good requirements. For precise requirements I don't need Scrum or any other esoteric methodology. I just need some people who are able express themselves precisely, clearly and who can put their specifications in some tool and maintain a proper dialogue with devs (i.e. Pivotal). They don't need weird names, roles and daily standups. Scrum is heavy routine which actually wears people out and invented by people who desperately want to upvalue their shitty projectmanagement job. The key is: just try to keep people out of your project and company who have absolutely no clue about tech/Internet/online.
- gouranga 14y agoI'd hire you in a flash. You were hit with the clue stick at birth!
- Arelius 14y agoLet's be honest, the clue stick beatings probabally came later in life.
- alinajaf 14y ago> i.e. Pivotal OK, so what you call Pivotal, I call Scrum. > The key is: just try to keep people out of your project and company who have absolutely no clue about tech/Internet/online. I'll try, thanks. As I said with non-technical people, some sort of process (call it what you like) helps.
- gouranga 14y agoThe normals should be talking to you rather than sending you crap. Its your opportunity to make sure their brains have been translated properly.
- alinajaf 14y agoThis comment sounds exactly like the sort of thing you would read in an 'Agile Project Management' book. I think it's just fashionable to rail against agile now, when we've already incorporated all of the good stuff into our processes as though it were the way we always worked.
- gouranga 14y agoI sort of agree. I recommend the following: Use a kanban chart (don't be tempted to do it in JIRA or some other atrocity), fire all the meddling project trolls, fire any crap developers, fire your outsourcing company, get a DVCS in, drown your business analysts in the toilets, buy middle management ipads and send them to Starbucks, talk to your customers, write shit. That is all. No magic project management unicorn shit required.
- gcb 14y agoBut it doesn't help to use the wrong names for things. everytime i move teams at bigcorp, which recently mandated agile, i have to figure out what waterfall artifact got each scrum name. It's madness.