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0 pointsubernostrum9y ago0 comments

I think the problem of most of the people who don't have a good experience with scrum is a misunderstanding of the underlying principles behind it.

Unfortunately this has become a cliché whenever someone criticizes scrum, Agile in general, etc.: it's never the fault of the idea/process, it's the fault of the manager/team for not understanding it properly or not doing it right.

Even if these philosophies and processes are so amazingly great when properly understood and implemented, the fact that hardly anyone seems to be able to properly understand and implement them would be a fatal flaw.

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patothon9y ago· 1 in thread

Agreed, that's why I specified I don't really like Scrum. Mainly because it's hard to actually implement without all the flaws if you don't try to understand the underlying principles. Unfortunately, Scrum books and coaches rarely go through these.

dragonwriter9y ago

> Mainly because it's hard to actually implement without all the flaws if you don't try to understand the underlying principles. Unfortunately, Scrum books and coaches rarely go through these.

If you are implementing Scrum, I don't see how you do it without the Scrum Guide (which defines Scrum), which is both quite short and does, in fact, go through the underlying principles.

abritinthebay9y ago

> it's never the fault of the idea/process, it's the fault of the manager/team for not understanding it properly or not doing it right.

Well, almost every time I see Scrum criticized the described process is not Scrum and merely cribs ideas from it without understand the purpose or how things inter-relate.

So it's a fair criticism.

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