Guided by a discussion on the Scrum Trainers list I just read Jeff Sutherland’s latest blog, Shock Therapy: Bootstrapping Hyperproductive Scrum, where he quotes the words of Scott Downey, the MySpace Scrum coach, describing his Scrum bootstrapping techniques.
Shock Therapy… or Compassion?
Addition and Subtraction in Scrum
On a recent scrum development thread about changing Scrum (here) Dave Barrett wrote:
“I think that [Agile Software Development with Scrum] is just as relevant today as it was when Ken wrote it. We still use 30 day Sprints, an Excel spreadsheet for burndown charts, track in hours and estimate in Ideal Developer days. And it works just fine thank you.
Scrum: its place in the world
Scrum is not some newfangled, flash-in-the pan methodology for software development (it isn’t a methodology at all, but that is off-topic for this blog). Scrum is a very small part of a greater movement in the business world, and perhaps the world of organizations in general.
When is Scrum not Scrum?
In teaching Scrum during the past year, and working with organizations in a consulting/training capacity I have found more and more that some of the principles as outlined in the two Scrum books are out-dated and unhelpful.
