Comments on: Scrum Methodology

By: MJ

MJ — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:59:56 +0000

Sean, sorry you’ve had such a bad experience with Scrum. Scrum’s focus on a self organizing team was particularly intended to get unqualified managers out of your way. It explicitly replaces the Project Manager role with the self organizing team. What part of it seems designed for the MBAs and project managers to you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6brn76hDec

By: ewok_bbq

ewok_bbq — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:07:30 +0000

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By: skmind

skmind — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:30:42 +0000

How is the effectiveness of SCRUM measured?

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:22:00 +0000

Sean is not totally wrong. He tells some facts.

By: ewok_bbq

ewok_bbq — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:42:21 +0000

Sean – you are totally wrong. Like totally. Scrum Rules!

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:04:54 +0000

Scrum sucks!
It is designed for the scums in the company. The MBAs and project managers.
It might work for a mature product, which only needs routine maintenance. Even so, route of least resistance determined that your code base would get messy quickly.

As to new product development, I couldn’t think there is a worse method.
A flat structure would never work in American Society. A technical savy person need a good control of real development.

By: Malik

Malik — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:45:20 +0000

Thanks MJ

By: MJ

MJ — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:42:58 +0000

Malik, I'll respond for ewok. The Scrum Master role is intended to be a facilitator, so ideally they would teach the team to prepare what ever documentation is required rather than always doing it themselves. The Scrum framework itself doesn't impose any particular documentation requirement. We do like to keep the Product Backlog visible to the organization, and the Sprint Backlog visible to the team. Sometimes burndown charts are useful, though most times they lead back to old habits. Does your product need documentation for the customer, or for internal purposes? For more on that see our Suggested Topics for Definition Of Done.

By: Malik

Malik — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:07:53 +0000

Thanks ewok. I understand the pdf talks about managing the client, team, prodcut. I did see some reference to some project docuemtation. What all Project documentations does a Scrum Master prepares?

By: ewok_bbq

ewok_bbq — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:18:19 +0000

Hi Malik – thanks for the comments. My suggestion is that you review the ScrumMaster Checklist website here: http://www.scrummasterchecklist.org/pdf/ScrumMaster_Checklist_12_unbranded.pdf

After you read through it – come back and let me know what you think. Cheers