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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 Subsentient on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:14PM
I don't follow this stuff. I tend to just recommend an open discussion on features and implementations, with lots of communication between team members. Then again, I'm a lone developer. I don't need to have a master plan for working with others. In fact, none of my projects ever had the 'guts' planned out. I figured out what I wanted it to do, what libraries I wanted to use, and started writing it.
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