SCRUM Down! The not so dirty world of teamwork May 19, 2008
Posted by Murray Brook in Technology.Tags: Agile Process, SCRUM
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9.00am Saturday morning, temperature about 30 degrees Fahrenheit. 15 bleary-eyed teenagers stagger out on a frozen field to ‘enjoy’ being pulled, mauled, smashed, bitten and trodden on by what seems to be a never ending supply of large opponents who seem to be very angry for some reason. An hour later we could sit back satisfied that we had given our all only when we were ‘caked’ head to toe in mud with a small trickle of blood leaking from somewhere on our heads.
Fortunately, when Inovis adopted the Agile development methodology “SCRUM,” they weren’t seeking to just bully their teams by comparing them to larger more aggressive teams; they were realizing that for today’s software market we have to be able to deliver on three main goals:
