Category: Dark-Agile

Herewith, some observations about the state of Scrum training. Taken a bit out of context here.

Perhaps the biggest mistake in XP and Agile ...

One 'reason' why folx don't want to learn technical practices seems to be that they expect no benefit. Sometimes that's more about futility than actual benefit.

In my thinking about Strawberries, I'm wondering what issues folks have with Scrum, good or bad. Please tell me. I'll mention some ways here.

There are signs and portents. What are they telling us? Is this death--or is it perhaps a rebirth?

Today I learned a new term. Maybe better/worse than 'Dark Scrum'. (TL;DR: If it isn't joyful, we're doing it wrong.)

What's the deal with Jira? Is it a bad thing, or the worst thing?

I've had a reply from the Chief Product Owner of the Scrum Alliance.

I think that today I'm going to write about joy. I have no idea where this goes. Walk with me ...

The End Scrum Now site, a bit of a rant, raises important issues. Let's explore some of them.

Those words came up in our Zoom Ensemble last night, and they're part of my theme this morning.

A few(?) more thoughts on the battle between Scrum and Software Development. A review of some past thoughts, and some of today's.

The Scrum Alliance mission? Let's talk about that. Fail better.

A Medium article with an interesting mix of observation and questionable opinion inspires me to write what I hope will be the same. 😈

Despite my concerns about experienced coaches advocating against practices that are often quite useful, there are a few things where I'd at least advise great caution.

This article expresses, in written form, the talk that Chet Hendrickson and I gave at the deliver:Agile conference.

... to ScrumAlliance.org, Scrum.org, and the Scrum Community at large

I like to say that I may have invented story points, and if I did, I'm sorry now. Let's explore my current thinking on story points. At least one of us is interested in what I think.

YAGNI can be a legitimate way to go fast at minimal cost. Skimping on the practices that support YAGNI? That's a mistake. Technical Debt? Not the same thing.

Some words and pictures about the various notions of 'technical debt', or, as I like to call it, wishful thinking.

Scrum is founded in the belief that self-organizing teams can figure out what they need. When true, this is sometimes not sufficient. And sometimes, particularly in software development, it seems not to be true.

Let's talk about what responsibility we have for those who never take a course from us, read our books or web sites, or even see our tweets. I think we have rather a lot.

Another little tweet-storm about estimation. I think it's useful and not as easy to use as some people think it is.

Agile transformations have little, if anything, to do with Agile Software Development. Let me hook up some connections for you. Bit of a rant here ...