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Re:Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for softwa... by Aeolun on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:31AM (#26354840)
> I find a lot of devs who dislike scrum dislike being told they have to work on company priorities instead of giving open ended estimates

No, what I dislike is being told to go work on feature X, when I know that we’re going to run into issues with feature Y in a matter of weeks, and then having to spend nights and weekends fixing it when it eventually does break, because nobody trusted me to know what was good for the product.

Scrum gives people who have no clue what they’re doing the illusion that they do. The process is literally their only handhold to avoid feeling swept away. Like, I’m doing nothing else right, but at least we are following _the process_.

Re:Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for softwa... by hvidgaard on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:57AM (#26356329)
In Scrum the PO state what value they would like to see in the next sprint. Then the team start to pull in issues supporting that value. If you know that feature Y is going to result in none working software any PO pulling his/her weight will listen to you. After all, working software is more important that a new feature.