Comments on: Flaccid Scrum?

By: Laszlo

Laszlo — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:42:18 +0000

Scrum’s co-founder Ken Schwaber responded to the Flaccid Scrum article with an article of his own here: http://www.scrumalliance.org/resource_download/745

In addition, he’s embarked on a speaking engagement to

By: admin

admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:39:58 +0000

Hi Ravichandran Jv. I think it’s difficult to answer your question absolutely. Yes, Scrum’s decision to not prescribe engineering techniques does leave an opening for organizations to adopt the wrong techniques or simply lose themselves in analysis paralysis. But the opposite is also true. Because Scrum doesn’t mandate specific agile engineering practices, it allows an organization to utilize those practices that make the most sense at their organization and for the project they’re working on. That is, Scrum attempts to avoid superfluous components so that the framework can be flexibly customized to cater to the unique needs of its users.

By: Ravichandran Jv

Ravichandran Jv — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:33:49 +0000

I read the post as well. I have been an XPer as the post remarks and i do kinda think that the project management practices in Scrum make it less flexible than you say. Giving the team the flexibility to adopt whatever engineering practices they want, still can be overridden by the project management constraints, dont you think?

I would like a response to my question, please. Thanks

Regards,

Ravichandran Jv

By: David Koontz

David Koontz — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:42:16 +0000

Did you see the post on LinkedIn’s Scrum Practitioners Discussion

“Can we have a new Scrum variant for the Waterfall guys”

http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=52030&discussionID=3850869&sik=1244171421561&trk=ug_qa_q&goback=.ana_52030_1244171421561_3_1

I say NO!