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Peter Ritchie — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:45:05 GMT

That's hilarious: "scrumbut". Thanks for the laugh.

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Anu — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:49:03 GMT

I completely agree with the scrumbut observation! And it seems really annoying when someone says it didn't work after ignoring one of the basic tenets!

I dunno if advocating specific principles will work either - even in the case you mention above(mothly release only), you aren't really doing SCRUM, but a variant of SCRUM. I would extend it and say this is a set of principles, not a single principle only. What say?

"We are doing Scrum, BUT..."

Espresso Fueled Agile Development — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:22:48 GMT

Eric Gunnerson has a great post on ScrumBut . As a ScrumMaster (certified, certifiable, whatever) I agree

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ericgu — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:42:36 GMT

Anu,

I'm not advocating that you don't do scrum. I'm saying that you should be careful using the word "scrum" (or the word "agile"...) to describe what you're doing, as it may have an undeserved negative connotation.

Eric

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marcod — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:51:39 GMT

Misuse and abuse of things seem to be part of life, comes to mind this other related post:

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/AgileImposition.html

re: scrumbut

Paul Hammond — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:05:25 GMT

I see people "adopting" Scrum and calling themselves Agile, without changing anything else about the way they write software. All that happens is that you get to see all the things that were covered up before; these usually manifest themselves in Scrumbuts...

Deeply understand what you are trying to achieve, or what you are trying to fix first. The rest will be so much easier!

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Steve Campbell — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:11:05 GMT

One of the core elements of Scrum is that you should re-evaluate your process at the end of each sprint, via a retrospective. If you're not ScrumBut, then you're doing plain-ol-vanilla Scrum, and that would mean it is the perfect out-of-the-box process for you. What are the chances of that?

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Ade Miller — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:41:44 GMT

What really troubles me is that in a lot of cases it's ScrumBut from day one.

It's a bit like baking a cake. Unless you're a master baker you generally follow the recipe a few times before messing with it. With Scrum people seem to think they can launch into ScrumBut right out the gate.

It can be very hard to disuade them from this. I got a lot of push back from the sprints we did. I think part of the issue is Scrum seems so simple that people think they understand it completely and want to "fix" it right from the start.

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Well well well — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:42:51 GMT

The fact is that if you don't follow _all_ Scrum rules, you are not doing Scrum.

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Inside Architecture — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:36:11 GMT

EricGu has a great post on something he calls scrumbut. It rings very true. One of the teams I was in

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Lindal Cossey, PMP — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:28:30 GMT

Scrum, like so many methodologies, can easily become a bandwagon that everyone wants to jump on, or say they have (business development types) when in reality it simply doesn't apply to your organization for any of a number of reasons, the most prevalant being managers who don't want to give up control. It is scary to step back and let your people run the project but it works. There are times however when the manager will need to step in and redirect the team. Those times are not Scrumbut. Every project morphs and the team (and Scrum) must match those changes. For me, Scrum has reduced my workload, and increased our success rate. Instead of 3 hour status meetings, I can sit in on a Sprint meeting for 10 minutes and KNOW whether the project is on track or not.

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Adventures of an agile developer in a not-quite agile world — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:35:00 GMT

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Michael — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:08:04 GMT

That happens with all agile methodologies like XP.

"We've tried XP and it did not work". This is a very dangerous trend...

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