God damn it, everything you write on here is so valuable and good. You are making the rest of us look bad. Stop it! ;)
I've heard it explained that the scrum thing was a way to start the journey. If you are in developer chaos, or utterly bogged down in useless process (some processes are good), then this will get you on the road. But we have better tools these days. Use them. Remember what your goals are. Scrum is not the goal. Delivering/testing the product or feature is (for example). If scrum is a strategy that gets you there in a better way, great. If you have a better way, use that instead.
Two week sprints are probably better than 3 year development cycles for most things (airplanes and nuclear reactors require a lot of planning, sorry). But it is artificial. Any complex project will have many different components, and all of them are going to have a different, natural cadence. This core infrastructure requires careful planning and build out. That UI element needs to be slapped together for an A/B test. This "like" fits great into the next 2 weeks. This device driver has to be syncronized with the prototype hardware delivery being made by your partner. And so on. Almost none of that fits into a 'finished product every two weeks, never stop or change once you start".
If scrum works for you, great, but please don't cargo cult it, or think it is the end instead of the beginning.
Useless but fun anecdote: I was reading some glassdoor reviews yesterday if a nearby compay. It was being excoriated by every employee review. The CEO responds with 'we are Agile now, so come work for us. All the whiners quit" (quote marks imply paraphrase, not direct quote) .Ya. No thanks.
I've heard it explained that the scrum thing was a way to start the journey. If you are in developer chaos, or utterly bogged down in useless process (some processes are good), then this will get you on the road. But we have better tools these days. Use them. Remember what your goals are. Scrum is not the goal. Delivering/testing the product or feature is (for example). If scrum is a strategy that gets you there in a better way, great. If you have a better way, use that instead.
Two week sprints are probably better than 3 year development cycles for most things (airplanes and nuclear reactors require a lot of planning, sorry). But it is artificial. Any complex project will have many different components, and all of them are going to have a different, natural cadence. This core infrastructure requires careful planning and build out. That UI element needs to be slapped together for an A/B test. This "like" fits great into the next 2 weeks. This device driver has to be syncronized with the prototype hardware delivery being made by your partner. And so on. Almost none of that fits into a 'finished product every two weeks, never stop or change once you start".
If scrum works for you, great, but please don't cargo cult it, or think it is the end instead of the beginning.
Useless but fun anecdote: I was reading some glassdoor reviews yesterday if a nearby compay. It was being excoriated by every employee review. The CEO responds with 'we are Agile now, so come work for us. All the whiners quit" (quote marks imply paraphrase, not direct quote) .Ya. No thanks.