#scrum (11 links)
- Story Points Revisited ronjeffries.com
The focus on more gets in the way of increasing value. Increasing pressure to do more almost inevitably has a bad result: the team tries to go faster, and wind up skimping on code quality and on tests. They soon begin shipping more defects, slowing down because of the increased rework to fix the defects, and slowing down even more because the code quality rapidly declines. Things get worse and worse, pressure increases, and it becomes a race to disaster.
- I’ve developed a more nuanced view on Scrum since working as a contractor | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
Now, after seeing [Scrum] from an adjacent (but not subjugated under it) perspective, I think it is a life-sucking batch of meetings that are good for one thing: taking developers who can’t or don’t want to see the overall business/architecture picture and getting useful work out of them.
- Dark Scrum ronjeffries.com
- Scrum disempowers developers | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum okigiveup.net
- Giles Bowkett: Why Scrum Should Basically Just Die In A Fire gilesbowkett.blogspot.com · Archived on
An excellent dissection of Scrum...
In other words, in its best-case scenario, Scrum's a dog-and-pony show. But that best-case scenario is rare. In the much more common case, Scrum covers up the inability to recruit (or even recognize) engineering talent, which is currently one of the most valuable things in the world, with a process for managing engineers as if they were cogs in a machine, all of equal value.
And one of the most interesting things about Scrum is that it tries to enhance the accountability of a field of work where both failure and success are obvious to the naked eye - yet I've never encountered any similarly elaborate system of rituals whose major purpose is to enhance the accountability of fields which have actual accountability problems.
- FlaccidScrum martinfowler.com
Scrum seems to be particularly common as the nominative process the team is following. For many people, this situation is exacerbated by Scrum because Scrum is process that's centered on project management techniques and deliberately omits any technical practices, in contrast to (for example) Extreme Programming.
- Scrum: Agile madness | www.jillesvangurp.com jillesvangurp.com
You can’t substitute experience with process and that is exactly what agile followers end up doing. Take away the experienced people and you have a lot of people executing the rituals of scrum, kanban, or whatever without really understanding what they are doing. The assumption that that will work at all is naive at best and actually rather delusional.
Via monospaced.