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I'd just like to point out that the notion of 'sprint', let alone sprint velocity, comes specifically from scrum. Which is just one version of agile software de
by azangru 1y ago
I'd just like to point out that the notion of 'sprint', let alone sprint velocity, comes specifically from scrum. Which is just one version of agile software development, albeit the most common one. For example, the arbitrariness of the sprint timebox, as well as the guessing of how much will be done over that time period, are perhaps among its weakest ideas, and have often been criticized.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoI think that at this point people have to let go of "Scrum is not the only way to do Agile" It's "technically" true, and I admit that, but this battle is lost If someone says they are doing Agile they mean Scrum. Otherwise they will specify Kanban (or whatever else) by name I know it's not technically correct, but that's just how it is, sorry
- vannevar 1y agoFair. But the central idea of scrum is a self-managed team, and there's nothing that says every sprint has to have the same duration, it just makes calculating the velocity easier. There's also nothing that says you can't pause sprints for some unstructured design and experimentation time, something that I think teams do too little of. The problem is that many organizations don't understand the self-managing aspect and simply put a manager in charge of the team and the scrum, which pretty much sabotages things from the start. This micromanagement, along with imposing unrealistic development timelines, are the two biggest mistakes that I commonly see. Neither of them are unique to agile.