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A quick rant about weaknesses of agile

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

you should keep the rituals that help you work better and discard the rest.

For those using Scrum, that means keep backlog list and discard everything else.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

@btaf45 @mspencer712 The whole point of Scrum is to use the retrospective to stop doing what doesn't work and start doing what does.

At one point, when my team's workload changed to less-timeboxable work, we threw out the entire concept of sprints and just used kanban instead, and stayed like that for a year. We still did retrospectives on the old sprint cadence though.

[–] nous 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my project managers once described scrum as agile with training wheels. Which I think is a good description. It is useful for teams new to agile but once you get going you can start to throw out the parts that you don't need or that don't work for your team. But still useful to get you going initially.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@nous That's a good way of putting it!

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