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The effectiveness of scrum really depends on the team size. The larger the team, the more bureaucracy is needed to manage it.
by snarfy 14y ago
The effectiveness of scrum really depends on the team size. The larger the team, the more bureaucracy is needed to manage it.
- genwin 14y agoTrue. My last project started each day with 2 hours of scrum.
- SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago> started each day with 2 hours of scrum. What? Was your 15-minute stand-up 2 hours long? If so, are you sure you were doing it right? Were you scrum-master, and doing 2 hours of admin per day? What were you doing for the rest of the working day? I'm not really sure what you are describing here.
- genwin 14y agoI wish it was a stand-up! If standing would've forced it to be only 15 minutes, that is.
- stonemetal 14y agoOP mentions larger teams, so a 20-40 person team nets you around 22-45 seconds per person in a 15 min scrum. If we give each person 3 min that is a 1-2 hour scrum.
- SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago> a 20-40 person team nets you around 22-45 seconds per person in a 15 min scrum Which is just one reason why you do not have 20-40 person teams in scrum. The team size top out at around 12, and yes, at that size you have to keep what you say at stand-up short and to the point. If you find a 20-40 person team, for scrum you will have to break it up into sub-teams. Was he doing some variation of scrum? Some kind of scrumbut? I won't claim that scrumbut always fails, but it's not hard to spot where this went wrong.
- genwin 14y agoWe were doing it wrong, for sure. It was a largish team with lots of drill-down done into each person's status. I had no power to change it.
- billswift 14y agoThe larger the team, the more overhead is needed, no matter what system you are using. The real problem is that scrum doesn't scale as efficiently as more structured management systems, so the overhead grows much faster than in most other systems as team size increases. ADDED: Conversely, with small teams, the overhead of more formal methods doesn't scale down; that is where less structured methods like scrum are most efficient.
- ronnier 14y agoWhat's a good team size?
- tarice 14y ago"Fewer than three Development Team members decreases interaction and results in smaller productivity gains...Having more than nine members requires too much coordination." - Scrum Guide, page 6 Source: http://www.scrum.org/Portals/0/Documents/Scrum%20Guides/Scrum_Guide.pdf http://www.scrum.org/Portals/0/Documents/Scrum%20Guides/Scru...
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