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Re:Everyone claims they are following “agile methods” but fe... by cwyers on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @12:40PM (#19798895)
Let me clarify that -- there are people who are using Scrum to do agile. Scrum is not _against_ agile. But if you are doing two-week sprints because management is chasing the latest fad, without empowering the team, you're not agile, you're just in a Scrum cargo cult.
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Re:Everyone claims they are following “agile methods” but fe... by monk_e_boy on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @04:01PM (#19801032)
Exactly this, agile is all about empowering devs, trusting them and allowing them to work.

Sprints are about enforcing feedback from the customer into the loop. If you have a half decent customer they should be happy with any length sprint and releases that make sense.

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Re:Everyone claims they are following “agile methods” but fe... by nielgaard on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:27PM (#19814373)
No, sprints are about creating artificial deadlines to stress developers to work more hours to meet so-called commitments/forecasts. It does not work of course, but that is what it is about.
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