Re: [teampractices] Healthy discussion: A couple of articles against scrum

2016-10-13 Thread Geeta Kavathekar
Thank you, Kevin, for taking the time to read and share your valuable thoughts. On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Kevin Smith wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Geeta Kavathekar < > geetakavathe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In regards to the engineering driven and "calling the shots" comment

Re: [teampractices] Healthy discussion: A couple of articles against scrum

2016-10-13 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Geeta Kavathekar < geetakavathe...@gmail.com> wrote: > In regards to the engineering driven and "calling the shots" comments in > the article, as I understand the Product Owner is the sole person that owns > the product backlog and responsible for maximizing the v

Re: [teampractices] Healthy discussion: A couple of articles against scrum

2016-10-12 Thread Geeta Kavathekar
Thanks for sharing these articles. They were most interesting to me. As a newly certified PSM and just having studied The Scrum Guide and now working a Scrum team I found these articles really very enlightening. I would agree with all of the comments Kevin talked about as I read the articles I had

Re: [teampractices] Healthy discussion: A couple of articles against scrum

2016-10-05 Thread Kevin Smith
Again, thanks Joaquin for sharing these. This (insanely long) email is in response to article: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-and-especially-scrum-are-terrible/ Here's my tl;dr of the article: He associates agile with aggressive management, hyper-focus on individual

Re: [teampractices] Healthy discussion: A couple of articles against scrum

2016-10-05 Thread Kevin Smith
Ooh! Good stuff. Thanks for sharing these links, Joaquin. This message is about the second article, which is specific to Scrum: http://okigiveup.net/not-big-fan-of-scrum/ I'm a proponent of agile, but am agnostic about scrum. Much of his article seems reasonable to me. He decries the use/overus

[teampractices] Healthy discussion: A couple of articles against scrum

2016-10-05 Thread Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
Hi! Some time ago I found a couple of articles from engineers discussing their opinion on scrum. At the time I found that many of their arguments resonated with things I was feeling in our work. Max saw the links and suggested chatting about them, so I've thought I'd post them to tpg to try and s