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Ah, it has finally happened: the first publication that has declared that Scrum is dead. Apparently, the over-paid consultants have relieved the under-clued bosses of all the money they can, so it's time for the next fad.
Scrum works, of course. Just about any software development methodology works, as long as you have good people working in a disciplined team. If you have a lousy team, adopting the latest fad isn't going to help you.
Iterative development is an old technique. I knew of it as far back as the 1980's, but writing this submission, I see that it has roots much farther back. In software, all the way back to the 1950s. In product development generally, it goes back at least to the 1930's, when Walter Shewhard proposed short "plan, do, study, act" cycles for product improvement.
So: let's take bets. What will the next fad be? TFA says it will be the "open development method". What do Soylentils think the consultants will be selling our bosses in five years?
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:30PM
I have seen ones where someone wanted to own the job and was the scrum leader... but had no authority to get anything done. They could not tell the other members of the team what to do, and they had no authority in the company, so they could not make others (usually IT or Facilities) do things like get servers set up or desks arranged. And their meetings get pre-empted by other bosses, and their human resources stolen by "more important" projects.
I think the problem is they were not actually doing scrum, they were a waterfall LARPing (going to use VLM's term from now on) as scrum. And, even worse, they were the classic hierarchy management company where middle managers at the same level were force to fight it out cage-match style to get resources allocated to them by the god-like senior management.
(If you read my posts, you can tell how much I despise large companies.)
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