Re:I don’t believe in sprints
by pwinnski on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @09:31AM
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It pans out more often than not, which is why it's the default. For now. Eventually something better might come along, but until then, this is working for many, many, many productive teams. Including mine.
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Re:I don’t believe in sprints
by closeparen on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @09:35AM
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Strict Scrum is really not the default in tech. "How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum" is good reading here & matches my experience.
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/project-managemen...
Re:I don’t believe in sprints
by robertlagrant on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @09:47AM
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The category error of thinking scrum is the same as agile is a big contributor to the complaints.
Who said anything about scrum? The comment was about "agile," of which scrum is only one possible implementation[0]. Sprints are not only found in scrum, but also in other agile approaches, like kanban.
Two-week sprints seem to be the default in tech, although I've worked at a company that very successfully used one-week sprints. That's completely separate from how strictly companies try to follow "scrum," if at all. I've run into kanban more often than scrum, personally.