Good news everyone! My magnum opus on Scrum just dropped, clocking in at almost 9K words! Prepare a drink, strap yourselves in, and enter the Torment Nexus.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/tossed-salads-and-scrumbled-eggs/

Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs — Ludicity

@ludicity Excellent. Covers my many bugbears with Scrum. One issue I have is “user stories” being the main unit of work passed to devs to complete in a sprint. They are often not granular enough or sufficiently well understood to turn into working software in 14 days. It also skips from “want thing” to “code thing” without “design thing”. It also assumes all devs are fungible and can understand the story. Thus the horror of Emergent Design, which is apparently a Good Thing.

@ludicity

This takes apart user stories and sprints in detail. If I was in any way decent at prose, it’s pretty much what I would have written, as it echos my experience. I’m so very tempted to call my next business “Cascade Software” or similar, just wind up Agile consultants.

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-and-especially-scrum-are-terrible/

Why “Agile” and especially Scrum are terrible

Note: My first novel, Farisa’s Crossing, will be released in spring 2022. Agility is a good thing, no doubt, and the Agile Manifesto isn’t unreasonable. Compared to a straw-man practice…

Michael O. Church
@bjn I mentioned to someone else that Michael reached out to me yesterday! Funny coincidence, as I didn't realize he had written on this.