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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, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:39PM
Among the reasons I've been unemployed for five years is that I don't mention Agile or Scrum anywhere on my resume. This leads recruiters to regard me as unqualified for their positions.
This despite that I first began developing my own methodology in 1988, and have quite a lot of experience with eXtreme Programming, from which Agile is derived.
"Surely you could mention Scrum on your resume?" you quite reasonably ask. And in fact I have quite a lot of experience with Scrum.
But were I to do that, the recruiters would receive their commissions.
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