Scrummin' (Part 1?)

[anavish]

Lately we've been semi-scrumming in the section. We tried to integrate some of the Scrum practices, while ignoring others (the hard ones, you know, like the ones that require management commitment and stuff like that). This isn't so healthy, I know, since the practices were designed to work together; but we're trying to use a sensible subset, in an

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You can't name a methodology after what lies between your balls and your anus!

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ברשותך, כשותפה (שפנפן ניסוי?) במשחק עם המתודולוגיה החדשה, הייתי רוצה להצביע על כמה

Re: You can't name a methodology after what lies between your balls and your anus!

[anavish]

Yay! Discussion

just more of the same

[anonymous]

I've heard here and there about Scrum. To me it sounds like just another methodology somewhere in the agile domain. Does it bring anything new? Maybe. But does it change anything substantial? Don't think so.

I'm not telling that Scrum is bad. I'm telling that it's just another methodology and "metodologiot yesh tesha belira". Why do you switch from one to another? I'd bet that every time the reason is the same: you don't deliver on time and it gives hope that this time it will work. But why don't you deliver on time? Because the requirements aren't clear enough, there are tasks you didn't take into the account and the working class is constantly disturbed from the outside? Scrum won't fix that because you problem is not about optimizing the developers. Photographing the white-board is fine (I myself believe in it) but doing that you optimize one developer's time. Is that indeed your bottleneck?

I have *a lot* to say on this issue. But I'm getting too agitated. Maybe next time.

FireAphis

Re: just more of the same

[anavish]

I think you're getting this the wrong way. We're not switching from one methodology to the other. We're incorporating some practices (which happen to come from Scrum) into our own methodology because we think they can improve certain aspects of our work which are currently sub-optimal. Indeed, Scrum is just another methodology somewhere in the Agile domain and it probably doesn't change anything substantial; but there are things that it does better than we currently do, and it is precisely those things that we're after

Re: just more of the same

[anonymous]

Well it sounds pacifying :)
Sorry for being too aggressive.
I still have _a lot_ to say about it (actually I'm on a team that manages to deliver all its reqs on schedule). But I'm getting too de-agitated. Maybe next time.

(Of course I'm always glad to answer any of your questions)