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Scrum Is a Cancer

20 pointsby jiceaover 1 year ago

4 comments

GoToROover 1 year ago
It's not just Scrum. Putting unqualified people in decision making positions is cancer. Scrum masters, product owners, team leads are the only ones that make decisions, a lot of times technical ones or that have impact on the technical side (like what to build first). But CEOs decided that these people can be non-programmers aka cheaper employees. So they created this setup in which the blind leads the herd. Scrum is just one way to "accomplish" this.
mlhpdxover 1 year ago
I don’t think Scrum was the basis of the problem.
jstx1over 1 year ago
Sounds like too much process. At the same time I&#x27;ve seen teams where the problem was too little process and they would have had great improvements from things like sitting people down and agreeing on what the short-term priorities are, agreeing on deadlines and scope, having clear requirements and a person in the business to continuously check that the requirements are being met.<p>So I would be careful about throwing out all process, you can&#x27;t just tell people to do the work and leave them alone - that doesn&#x27;t scale as teams and companies grow. There&#x27;s an art in hitting the right amount of process.
owlstuffingover 1 year ago
Indeed. It’s an industry. It may be more apt to say “cancer is a scrum.”