> Two lashes for failing to update your task in the system
my back is still hurting ( our BigCo had methodically tried to implement Scrum/Agile/Lean during 2012/13 which happened to be such a great failure. It seems that management is so shell-shocked by it that they haven't tried to push any new methodology during the whole last year. Well, and the management lost all credibility here too - any attempt at pushing any new methodology today would make everybody laughing in their face :)
>"are we going to have a demo or not?"
almost two first weeks of a sprint almost whole organization is working on a demo for the previous sprint - that was beyond insane.
> almost two first weeks of a sprint almost whole organization is working on a demo for the previous sprint - that was beyond insane.
Wow. You're right, that's beyond crazy.
What frustrates me is that demos can be very useful, if done right, but if you're doing them because "We do Scrum, here look at this certificate I got from Scrum Alliance saying that I'm a 'Certified ScrumMaster®', see?!" like the artefacts of Scrum are magical ceremonies that will cleanse you of your software sin...
For example, we create a small video demo of a feature story as part of the story development, and we make it available for our business team (who are on the opposite side of the world) immediately. This gives them a chance to flag the occasional oversight on our part sooner, and we can fix it sooner. It works really well for us in terms of ensuring quality, but also for keeping the business team aware of what we're doing.
But if it didn't, then we should iterate on our process (like bloody Scrum says to do) and stop doing them.
>For example, we create a small video demo of a feature story as part of the story development, and we make it available for our business team (who are on the opposite side of the world) immediately. This gives them a chance to flag the occasional oversight on our part sooner, and we can fix it sooner. It works really well for us in terms of ensuring quality, but also for keeping the business team aware of what we're doing.
so far there is nothing in that paragraph specific to Scrum :) Doing demo sooner in order to get feedback and chance to fix sooner is more toward Agile. Doing demo just because it is end of sprint is Scrum. Agile and Scrum are two pretty opposite things :)
my back is still hurting ( our BigCo had methodically tried to implement Scrum/Agile/Lean during 2012/13 which happened to be such a great failure. It seems that management is so shell-shocked by it that they haven't tried to push any new methodology during the whole last year. Well, and the management lost all credibility here too - any attempt at pushing any new methodology today would make everybody laughing in their face :)
>"are we going to have a demo or not?"
almost two first weeks of a sprint almost whole organization is working on a demo for the previous sprint - that was beyond insane.