posted 1 year ago
Not to denigrate Scrum, but I cannot honestly think of any major musical compositions that were team-produced, At best you might have something like Gilbert & Sullivan, the Gerschwin brothers or various Broadway team-ups, but those are all "pair programming" if you will. Composing is often a single-person job and many of the collaborations are one person doing lyrics and another doing the musical part. Even a group like the Beatles would probably not scrum very well.
Best I can envision is something like a bespoke film scoring effort where, say Tim Burton, Danny Elfman and a bunch of the creative team get together to design a musical production, but that's not real "composer scrum", it's for something bigger.
I'd go so far as to say that you might as well just give music composition over to ChatGPT as to a committee.
On the other hand, Renaissance art studios often were headed by a headline artist such as Michaelangelo or Da Vinci who would, in fact, be working heavily on commission (as opposed to Mozart who was on salary or Bach who wrote 6 Brandenburg Concertoes in the vain hope of simply getting a job). Such studios would generally consist of the Master, students, and other flunkies who might be doing the prep and rough-in work before the final piece was polished, signed and delivered to a client. That might very well be worth a shot at scrum.
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