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Hey kids, Do ya love sprinting? Wanna never stop? Wanna play with cards shouting numbers with no meaning not unlike old ladies playing Bingo? Wanna have a mi
by ath3nd 2y ago
Hey kids,
Do ya love sprinting? Wanna never stop?
Wanna play with cards shouting numbers with no meaning not unlike old ladies playing Bingo?
Wanna have a mini CEO, who, for some reason bosses around people far more qualified than themselves, implying that they are just nerds that can't be trusted to speak to the outside world?
Wanna appoint one of your team members each week (or, even better, hire a dedicated member of your team) to whine about you adhering to all of the rules you just made up?
If you love all of the above, you'd love Scrum. And, if your idea of good time is being in meetings about meetings, you'd love SAFe even more.
> If you are just getting started, think of Scrum as a way to get work done as a team in small pieces at a time,
The reality is that if you are just getting started, think of Scrum as a way to talk about work and have rituals about work, preventing you from doing actual work. I have never, in my long career, seen Scrum work. Unless your idea of it working is chasing away good developers and making the mediocre ones thrive (in following the process, not in actual achievements).
Scrum is just terrible and should be killed with fire.
- mindcrime 2y agoSAFe should absolutely be nuked from orbit. But Scrum done right works very well. The thing is, most of your strawman items listed above are not intrinsic to Scrum. Take the "playing with cards" thing for example. "Planning poker" is not an intrinsic element of Scrum. Despite the practice being nearly ubiquitous in shops that claim to be using Scrum, it's really an outside idea that got pulled in. Don't believe me? Check the Scrum Guide[1] and see if you see any mention of planning poker. Or for that matter, Jira - another thing people often criticize in regards to Scrum, despite it also not actually being part of Scrum. Velocity is another thing that people love to rail against (and rightly so) that isn't part of Scrum. [1]: https://scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v2020/2020-Scrum-Guide-US.pdf https://scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v2020/2020-Scrum-Gui...