@"Tired of Scrum"

re: @"Tired of Scrum"

Emil Gustafsson — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:09:41 GMT

@and bod: I can actually agree that the Scrum alliance have failed since all the Scrum certifications have lead to way too many organizations implementing their own misunderstood version of Scrum. And the most misunderstood part of Scrum is probably that the purpose of the daily stand-up is to report status while the truth is that the daily stand-up was supposed to encourage communication within the team.

Second I think you mean TDD and not unit testing since you refer to writing tests first. Once again the T in TDD has caused confusion. The purpose of TDD is not to write tests! The purpose is to write code that follows some simple principles such as loose coupling and code that is testable typically (but not always) follow these principles. Since the T in TDD is so confusing that is also why Behavior DD and Example DD have been used to better describe what you're supposed to do.

That all said; one thing that intrigues me more is what in your opinion is the right way to do things?

re: @"Tired of Scrum"

and bod — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:59:28 GMT

Scrum is another sympthom of the utter failure of today development practices. Another is unit testing. How many other industries/fields are so unsure and unsatisfied with the way their practices work that they need to make tests even before they have something to test and they need to check on the core people involved in the process a couple of times a day? Migut be because software dev is still young compared to other fields, but honestly i think its because of the moronicly brainwashing ways it is tought at school. At any rate lets not kid ourselves unit testing and scrum agile are in no way useful, but just necessary evils because its all crazy.

re: @"Tired of Scrum"

Josh Roman — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:37:56 GMT

"the most important concept is hidden in the retrospect; the ability (and will) to improve the team's productivity. A team that is "happy with how things are" will in my opinion sooner or later experience an utter failure or just be unhappy. "

Spot on. With all due respect to Agile Scout above, it's time to stop blaming "management" OR "developers" for failure. It's really the desire of individuals, a dev team, or the larger organization to stay the same. The status quo is safe and comfortable, but ultimately leads to unhappiness. As Maslow says: "what one can be, one must be." Embrace change and you embrace growth.

re: @"Tired of Scrum"

Agile Scout — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:08:17 GMT

Well said. Scrum isn't the issue, business people with lack of understanding (that it's a framework) is the issue.