I guess my point should have been: If you don't follow the guidelines for something, it is not really fair to complain about it when things go wrong.
There are parts of 'agile' I loathe. Other parts I like - scrum being one of them, I find it keeps me focused more on what needs to be done. But I won't fault 'agile' if we only follow some of the guidelines and things go south. On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:16 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Having them 'attend' the scrum is fine. > > > > Having them disrupt the scrum with stuff that is 'outside of scope' for > > scrum is not. > > > > As contractors, we should not simply give the client what they ask for > > (often times, what they as for is not what they want). We should guide > the > > client to what is best for the project. This includes letting them know > > that for an 'agile' process, it is not best for the project if they > attend > > the meeting and take things off the rails. > > > > Meh....i don't see the point in trying to conform a project to a > methodology, as opposed to the other way around. > > My project is a high visibility, highly critical, rapidly changing project. > The needs and requirements change almost daily. As such, client input can > be necessary daily. So they asked to use our scrums for that. > > Seems stupid for me to say "No, Agile doesn't work that way...". Seems more > reasonable to say "Our project is pretty unique, let's adapt Agile to work > the way we need it." > > So that's how we scrum, and we make it work. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371941 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
