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Re:Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @02:10PM (#7065406)
Your post tends to use "agile" and "Scrum" as if they were references to the same thing. Agile is an approach that puts "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" and Scrum is an extremely rigidly defined set of processes.

Scrum might be a starting set of processes adopted by an agile organization, but an organization that is concerned with "doing Scrum right" is not Agile.

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Re:Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development by asolove on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @02:45PM (#7065648)
I'm sorry if I seem to be using the terms interchangeably. I do not intend to, but Scrum is the particular tactic I have seen used to accomplish what I understand agile to be.

I agree that anyone who is dogmatic about "doing Scrum" for its own sake is missing the point, as is anyone who is "doing Scrum" in order to just make their team more organized or productive. That said, within the constraints of the current business world, Scrum is the best way that I have seen to resolve the necessary tensions of creating software products and let people and interactions take center stage.

But I'd love to hear your experience and advice.

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