![]() ![]() That sounds like an agile approach, doesn’t it? It was, and at the time it was fairly radical if not heretical. If you go back to the original article introducing Scrum in 1986, the “ New New Product Development Game,” by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, you find a holistic approach with an emphasis on speed and flexibility and a rejection of silos and sequential handoffs. Scrum, in practice, is the drum major leading the death march parade. Scrum, in theory, is a method for new product development based on the Toyota Way, adapted by agilistas for software development. Because I hold out the (admittedly slim) hope that we can learn from and prevent future disasters like Scrum, if only we understand what went wrong and why. ![]() There are no shortage of luminaries who are calling for developers to abandon agile or speaking out against the “faux agile” of the so-called agile-industrial complex. So why bother with another article on this topic?īecause I’m an optimist.
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