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M. Reinke's avatar

Well, how can I put it?

I am not a Scrum fan, you can use it, for a while. For a short project.

The word "sprint" alone sets off alarm bells, how long can you sprint for? 1 hour? 1 week? Years?

I did a project with a Scrum like environment, over the course of 2–3 months, this was one of the best projects in my career, but the team members knew each other from different projects, and we actually had a project leader and an architect, these roles were set from previous projects. (And we had no retrospectives, but a daily task breakdown.)

One aspect I miss is that the team sits in a glass house, they can be surveyed by HR, e.g. how many tasks you do (sure, I know what you would say, but I have seen such cases).

Because all those things are not defined you mentioned, it is so difficult to grasp the method by a scrum beginner.

Thank you for your thoughts, I link your page to our scrum setup decision board. (Perhaps someone will become uncertain about Scrum, when they read your text. ;) )

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Lyle Jantzi III's avatar

Personally, I prefer the shape up method. https://basecamp.com/shapeup

Even that can be taken too far. No system is going to save you if the producer (or product owner) running the project has OCD.

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