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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are actively using scrum/agile me... by prototype56 on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @11:35AM (#1514878)
So you prefer waterfall ? Most of my gigs have been in big corporate environments where people are considered "resources" and agile has nothing but savior for me . Bad agile is always better than even good waterfall .
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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are actively using scrum/agile me... by gaius on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @01:05PM (#1515239)
Ermm, one of the tenets of Agile is that all members of the team are interchangeable (i.e. anyone can take anything from the backlog).
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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are actively using scrum/agile me... by prototype56 on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @03:43PM (#1515712)
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" ...people are more important than any process ..and considering them "resources" is not valuing people enough. What i said has nothing to do with team roles
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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are actively using scrum/agile me... by gaius on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @03:50PM (#1515739)
You'll find once you start referring to PMs as "Powerpoint resources" they stop :-)
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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are actively using scrum/agile me... by noss on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @01:25PM (#1515293)
But they are not to be taken away from the team during a sprint! There is absolutely no recommendation to change the teams between sprints for the sake of changing either.

The interchangeable part (although I have never heard it called that) is more that knowledge should be spread, so you don't end up with domain experts that end up "owning" part of the code.

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