On 10 January 2012 12:37, Dave Hodgkinson <daveh...@gmail.com> wrote: > This whole Scrum thing smells of "life coach".
There are a lot of charlatans about, but I'm pretty happy with how we're doing it here - our "scrum master" has plenty of real world experience both in development and agile project management and applies it scientifically - we're even running Kanban for one team and SCRUM for another as they better suit the projects, there are a lot of buzzwords flying around and sometimes at a morning standup a couple of people will go through the motions while chewing other some coding detail rather than stepping back and thinking about they day in terms of tasks, goals, etc. On the whole it's working pretty well, the client(s) are happy, the developers are pretty happy and it feels like making progress and being mostly in control - even if it's only because sticking to a methodology means that we're thinking about how we're doing things more than if we weren't. Cheers, A. -- Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Consulting