Why SCRUM?

[Sarah Webchef]

Hi!

I hope this is the right place to post. My question is what makes SCRUM different from other management practices and why did it get your interest to begin with?

I guess that's 2 questions so you can just pick one if you like!

[Darcy DeClute]

Sarah Webchef wrote:Hi!

I hope this is the right place to post. My question is what makes SCRUM different from other management practices and why did it get your interest to begin with?

I guess that's 2 questions so you can just pick one if you like!

Scrum is kinda strange.

It bills itself not as a management style but instead a "lightweight, purposefully incomplete product development framework."

So, it's really about helping teams build products, it's not about managing teams. In fact, Scrum eschews management and insists developers self-manage.

If a manager ever tries to attend a Daily Scrum or a Sprint Retrospective, it's the Scrum Master's duty to obstruct and distract that manager and keep them away from the devs. (Or something like that.)

Scrum vs the Others

But how is Scrum different?

I think Scrum is different because it really just puts into words what effective teams should be doing already.

Plan, but don't plan too much

Adjust your plan every day so your goal stays on target

Review software with clients at least once a month

At least once a month talk about how to improve the team

That's about it.

The Scrum Guide is less than 5000 words in length. It' doesn't say all that much.

Being Grouchy

When I was 7, I wrote an angry letters to Sesame Street about keeping Oscar in that garbage can all the time that was more than 5000 words. 5000 words is nothing!

As to why I got into Scrum, well, I wanted to one day get into the IT field and while I like to code, I also like coaching people and helping teams build products. So the whole Agile movement and Scrum framework really appealed to me.

I've kinda embraced Scrum, and now I just want others to learn about it and hopefully become as passionate about it as I am.

Short answer: I'm not good at coding.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Sarah Webchef wrote:Hi!

Welcome to the Ranch

I hope this is the right place to post.

It is.

. . . I guess that's 2 questions . . .

You should post each question separately; then you would have two chances to win the book

[satya Priya Sundar]

If some organizations think that applying Scrum /Agile will solve their fundamental issues with Delayed deliveries and unhappy teams or customers
then they are wrong.

It has to be slow, well intended, and steady sprinting, embracing all the Scrum Ethos, not just  by doing peace meal adoption or the so-called Hybrid Model, i have seen that
failing miserably or not seeing anything tangibly happening.

Scrum is people-centric/people first, the more we understand it the better we operate as a performing scrum team.

Thanks
Sathya Sundar

[Darcy DeClute]

satya Priya Sundar wrote:
It has to be slow, well intended, and steady sprinting, embracing all the Scrum Ethos, not just  by doing peace meal adoption or the so-called Hybrid Model...

I totally agree.

I think most people in the Agile community would agree.

It's not about speed, but about meeting the needs of the customer, continuously delivering software, staying motivated and working at a sustainable pace. All of which are mentioned in the Agile Manifesto.

Having said that, it doesn't help that narrative knowing the co-creator of Scrum wrote a book titled Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time.

[Isha Effilix]

I’d love to get your advice and feedback on something my team and I have been working on for almost two years. We’ve just rolled out our AI-powered agile maturity assessment module, built to help speed up agile transformation.
We’re eager to hear your thoughts, whether it’s positive feedback, suggestions, or even constructive criticism. Your insights will be key to helping us fine-tune the tool and make sure it truly supports agile teams.
We’ve put a ton of work into this, and now we’d really appreciate your input to make it even better. This is Effilix, and we can’t wait to hear what you think!

[Tim Cooke]

Isha wrote:AI-powered agile maturity assessment module

Frankly this sounds horrible.

For a way of working that promotes value in people, relationships, communication, and continual adjustment in the pursuit of team effectiveness, among others, the idea of having an AI system make judgements on those very human, and thus very diverse among people, qualities does not strike me as a positive step.

[Tim Holloway]

I dunno. To me, a potential advantage of AI is that it has no emotional stake or self-interest (which is why I favor AI CEOs). But what part of the SCRUM process would AI fit into? It's not the user, If it's going to replace the developer then SCRUM seems pointless. The respective managers would presumably be doing more than just the one project. That leaves the SCRUM Master, I think, but is that really a position that needs AI?

Also as a disclaimer, I'm still concerned that AIs have had to be retired because they trained themselves to be bigots. Aside from the fact that bigots are annoying to work with at best, in the case of AI, one would worry what else they'd be secretly training themselves to do.

The human brain is a very powerful computational matrix, but it takes over 20 years for one to become a junior software developer. An AI wouldn't have to spend as much time learning motor skills (walking and such). We don't yet know if they'll need "sleep" (though odds are that they will, just because sleep is do essential to even the most primitive neural creates). So I think it's going to be a while before AI can do more than clumsily assist.