The Decline and Fall of Agile

James Shore posted an excellent blog entry titled The Decline and Fall of Agile about what he's seeing happening with many Scrum teams, provoking a myriad of responses all over the agile blogosphere.

A few of the posts:

Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)

InfoQ

Jeremy Miller:

In my opinion, Scrum is a kind scaffolding around the team where value is actually created, used to construct the real process, one improvement at at time. And, if you know where you can go, those improvements should lead more or less towards XP engineering practices. The reality is that Scrum is a lot easier to sell than XP in its entirety, especially when it comes to getting people to rally around a process change to begin with. XP, on the other hand, with its 12 practices, can be mind boggling to start with if you don't have a coach who really knows the drills.

People, knowing only Scrum without the technical practices to make shorter cycles work in the long run, are going to get into trouble. It's as simple as that. Of course not everybody is going to be equally good at it, but awareness is a key element. If not believing something is possible makes sure it won't happen then not knowing about a possibility is an even better way to ensure it never happens. So introducing Scrum as a complete package into a company without at least ensuring awareness of the technical practices, is a risky practice IMHO.

We are fully aware of these risks here at Sprettur, and are ready to provide training in the engineering practices talked about in these posts. Contact us for details.

17.11.2008 | Comments [5]
Flokkur: Agile | Scrum | Sprettur | Stjórnun | Tækni | XP
Höfundur: Guðlaugur Stefán Egilsson

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I wrote my own reply to all agilists who are preaching that certain agile practices are required to be called 'agile':

The Decline and Fall of Agilists
http://www.noop.nl/2009/02/the-decline-and-fall-of-agilists.html
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