Re:Considering leaving job because of SCRUM
by sheepmullet on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:31PM
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> May I ask what could possibly take 12 weeks worth of work before having anything useful?
12 person weeks is a tiny amount of effort.
> but in the first sprint you can release the component to tokenize strings, for example.
Ah I see - You just have to redefine what useful means :P.
If your customer needs a search engine then having a string tokenizer is not useful at all.
You don't run a project this way to improve individual developer productivity. You run it this way to reduce infrastructure and project risk.
Often using Scrum practices is a good tradeoff - the problem is the messaging. The truth is we are trading off developer productivity and growth in order to lower overall risk and make the software process more predictable.
12 person weeks is a tiny amount of effort.
> but in the first sprint you can release the component to tokenize strings, for example.
Ah I see - You just have to redefine what useful means :P.
If your customer needs a search engine then having a string tokenizer is not useful at all.
You don't run a project this way to improve individual developer productivity. You run it this way to reduce infrastructure and project risk.
Often using Scrum practices is a good tradeoff - the problem is the messaging. The truth is we are trading off developer productivity and growth in order to lower overall risk and make the software process more predictable.