Originally posted by Darya Akbari:
Hi Johanna,
How do you adapt Scrum in your Project Management.
To me Scrum, like other Software Development (SD) methods, is always in combination with Project Management (PM) method. So Scrum is not a replacement for Project Management. And since we have lot of SD methods and lot of PM methods there is a wide range of combinations.
Darya,
As Ilja said, Scrum is a project management approach. However, the software development approaches are orthogonal to it (and other PM approaches). My belief (and experience) is that the project manager chooses a lifecycle that fits the project team and its context. The team chooses the SD methods. As a PM, I might say, "I want to know you've reviewed all the code. I know of several ways to do this: inspections, peer review, buddy review, pair programming. I don't care what you choose as long as you choose something. What will you choose to do?"
I can say that because although I lean towards buddy review and pairing, I'm willing to take the others. What I want is a result, not adherence to a process.
The one thing I tend not to compromise on is continuous integration. Teams really have to convince me that staged integration is right for them for some reason.
But otherwise, I don't care much about process; I care about results. Maybe that's the thing that seems new.
Johanna