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 β€” Ludicity

@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.
@jacques @ludicity We now have four former Pivots on our team, the latest being our PM who now facilitates standup. I could see at the end of our last how desperately he wanted to clap πŸ˜‚

@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.
@ratkins love you too Rob