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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: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:55PM
Are you one of my former coworkers? I left a place because of that kind of project management style!
I left another place because that kind of project management style was actually an improvement over the previous regime's project management style, which was "Ticket tracking? Bah! Change management? Forget it! Testing servers? Just do everything in production! Unit testing? Nah! QA staff? Waste of money!"
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2015, @06:21PM
eehhh no dont think so. Apparently it can get worse! :) At least we have QA, staged production, and ticket tracking.