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There isn’t anything in the agile manifesto on how to do anything. It’s a statement of preferences and values. Business demands process for people in functions
by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
There isn’t anything in the agile manifesto on how to do anything. It’s a statement of preferences and values.
Business demands process for people in functions to follow. Scrum outlines meetings for programmers to attend, and specific process outputs like user stories to produce and close. Scrum is agile in business because business cannot do agile.
- stetrain 2y agoRight, so when someone says they are doing Agile instead of Scrum but don't like it because of the invasive status meetings, they're probably actually doing some form of Scrum whether or not they realize it.
- bluGill 2y agoThere are agile processes other than Scrum. Scrum has gotten all the press for some reason, but there are other options. I personally prefer Kanban. The sprint is not a useful deadline for me so I want to ignore it.
- stetrain 2y agoAgreed. But Kanban also often incorporates some of the processes from Scrum like daily standups that aren't prescribed anywhere in Agile. Personally I find it more useful to organize things around useful product milestones that are actually usable and demo-able. Those might take a week, or three weeks, but probably not two months because that's a long time to go without a demo and getting feedback. Sticking to a rigid 2-week sprint with an expectation of demo-able progress after each sprint doesn't feel particularly realistic or useful to me.