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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: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 18 2015, @03:44PM
I am personally devastated that Scrum is dead. It means that all my rugby metaphors will now be useless. I mean, it's not like any Americans on the team ever got the references, except for the womyn with that certain kind of build, but it was usually not that big a problem because the team was mostly H1B's from India anyway. For those it was never entirely cricket to employ so many rugby metaphors, but they got it.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:20PM
Scrum was never a live. Sub in: Do what you want. Do produce produce.
In 30yr I have not seen a true waterfall or scrum. Scrums replaced weekly stays reports. Waterfall cut down number of releases per year.
The best was 3 guys: owner, his frienf and me. We would go to lunch and talk about family and what we want the system to handle 2 to 3 yrs. yes we had our own issues. Our lawyer neighbors offer free mediation services. Coming in after a long weekend finding code implemented that last week was agreed to do next cycle. But it was great fun. Writing freestanding multiway tree with compression. I tertask (pipes/queues/client-server). Still got a letter from IBM, asking for us not to do that, it hurts