Re:Ask HN: Best project management practices in 2018?
by mattmanser on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:45PM
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Well, that's an impressively convoluted way of justifying doing the exact opposite of what the phrase says.
The principles make it even clearer.
What's especially damning about Scrum is that there's courses, and prescribed tools, and prescribed processes. Exactly the opposite of what the values and the principles argue for.
Ok.
> in direct contradiction with one of the four values of the agile manifesto:
> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
But its not in contradiction. Agreed processes are the outcome of individuals and interactions, not dictates from authority external to the team. The individuals and interactions are superior to, and directing, the processes and tools; that is consistent with the line quoted from the Agile Manifesto, especially when considered with the line everyone forgets that immediately follows the "X over Y" statements: "That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more."
The Manifesto is not calling for rejecting clear, well-defined processes in favor of chaos. Its calling for making process serve the team rather than vice versa.