Comments on: No Scrum, No More

By: Pierre E. Neis

Pierre E. Neis — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:48:32 +0000

Hi,

Congrats for your "courageous" post. I do also appreciate your reasons to do not Scrum.

As a branded and certified Scrumers, I follow the line that this framework does not fit to all of us but, if I have to go to the core of Scrum: we have to continuously improve ourselves.

You taked it, you'd improved it, and choose a better path for the team.

Great stuff.

By: Geir Berset

Geir Berset — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:48:00 +0000

Agreed. We sometimes work where not only solution is unknown, but also customer need is unknown. Also, uncertainty varies during a project, which makes us lean toward flexible length sprint planning most of the time.

By: Thushara Wijewardena

Thushara Wijewardena — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:01:48 +0000

I think selecting SCRUM vs KANBAN is totally depending on the context you are in. In average for custom development projects SCRUM produces really good results. But I also have a project where planning even 10 day sprint is near to impossible so it work well in KANBAN type of practice.

By: Geir Berset

Geir Berset — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:17:51 +0000

As much as I love a good round of unbiased total immersion to experience both the upsides and the flaws of something, I do not believe it is always necessary. Scrum was our first formal experience with an agile methodology, and thus we decided to go all in. Scrum turned out to be less agile than we had more intuitively worked before, but the experiences were very useful, and we are still very inspired by it, although with the aforementioned adjustments.

I guess my answer is plainly: I don't know.

We will definitely not go all in on the next agile methodology that shows its face, but we will surely draw inspiration from it.

I know that did not answer your question, but I hope it provided a little insight anyway.

By: Geir Berset

Geir Berset — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:10:12 +0000

Vi kjørte 30 i starten, men for det meste kjørte vi 14 dager.

By: Geir Berset

Geir Berset — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:06:18 +0000

Thanks, it's nice to hear that you draw some inspiration from our experience.

By: Geir Berset

Geir Berset — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:05:56 +0000

We just switched to Intensedebate, and I seem to have missed the point completely. My reply is further down the page for this one. ;) Thanks for the comment.

By: Geir Berset

Geir Berset — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:04:59 +0000

Thanks. We'll keep you posted on our progress with continuous deployment.

By: Geir Berset

Geir Berset — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:03:30 +0000

We have one team which is co-located in a shared office environment (no walls between each of us) and we have one person in another city (Gothenburg, Sweden)

We use IRC for a lot of the day to day communication, even between the co-located individuals, as it is less disruptive for the receiver (i.e. you can finish what you are doing before checking messages), and for the group as a whole. Also using IRC will include the person in Sweden so he is up to date on the osmotic micro-communication.

By: Geir Berset

Geir Berset — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:59:22 +0000

Thanks for your feedback. I have only a small correction — we did not use 2 days for planning. We time-boxed it to 4 hours — still it was too much at once, and not enough ongoing planning as we had already discussed the details during our 4 hour session.