Ludic 🧛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/
Jacques Chester@ludicity
> I like the principles enough that our consultancy is current leaning heavily towards adopting Extreme Programming practices.
Yes! Joooiiinnn uuusssss
@jacques I do love that I have one reply that goes "YESSS, XP" and another that goes "You are about to enter a world of cutesy nonsense".
(But we take a lot of pointers from Jesse Alford and Nat Bennett so we're probably going the cutesy nonsense route no matter what anyone says.)
@ludicity I’ve seen the promised land. It was real. Best. Cult. Ever.
Robert Atkins@ratkins @jacques I am fucking SLAMMING the Pivot kool-aid and I refuse to stop. Each thing I've picked up has been amazing so far.
I'm willing to concede it's kool-aid and the secret sauce is actually the Pivots themselves, but being able to align with a community that shares working practice so openly and coherently is the craziest career accelerator I've ever had.
Better methods would still need to find equal advocates.
@ludicity @jacques Yeah. It was a self-selecting group who all bought in, so obviously it got a bit cult-y. But my god it was great to be working with a thousand other people who shared your base assumptions about how stuff should be done. It’s where I gained respect for design and PM as practices because I finally saw what it looked like when those roles were done well.
@ludicity @jacques The niggling thing that worries me is that maybe it didn’t matter? Like, human-centered design and iterative development are necessary, but absolutely nowhere near sufficient for building a successful product. Do the other factors (marketing, sales, right place/right time, blind luck, old boy networks) completely overwhelm execution competence? At the very least you burn out fewer product teams I suppose.
@ratkins @jacques Note: I know a guy that writes trash software for the government. Wife is on the board that chooses his products. He seems very stressed about because he only has sales charisma.
I think the other stuff matters for things that people who aren't entirely money-obsessed care about, i.e, calm, professional pride, working with cool people. I know my team can sell enough to succeed, but we need to find ways to not just have a bad job with extra steps.
Coby@ratkins love you too Rob