Scrum isn’t about micro-management. It’s about creating a shared conscience across the team and, it also highlights who’s having problems and who isn’t. i.e. It reveals to an observer who might be motivated and highly creative and who might not, it can hint that a team isn’t functioning well, that some people are being stifled and so on.

Scrum is then, about building high performance teams and delivering some stuff worth a damn (which requires a level of transparency because no team is perfect), that’s why there are observers and do’ers at stand-ups. Observers are coaches and interested parties not controllers or managers.

High quality developers know this, as do the best team builders (I am not a manager, I’m a coach and guide).

“Good programmers are driven and motivated by their excitement about technology”

I disagree, almost all programmers are motivated by that, just take a look at all the magazines (on and off line), twitter feeds, blogs and such. Everyone is doing that and it’s not the mark of a great programmer. A great programmer is motivated by using technologies to make a difference and knows that technology itself doesn’t solve problems, it’s the surrounding work such as design, testing (not just functional), a level of planning discipline etc.

Good programmers are driven and motivated by their excitement about technology. Managers are motivate and excited by meetings. As, developers we have noticed this trend for many years. Scrum is the newest expression of this propensity. And, no high quality developers, that I have ever known, are going to be inspired by daily meetings about what they dud yesterday and what they will do today. Programming “velocity” just does not work that way.

Check out this hilarious video as to why a CIO would even consider agile in the first place.

John

You created this abhorrent video, and now you are trying to blame me by nitpicking a sentence.

You’re also completely incorrect that there are “4 antipatterns in one sentence” … POSSIBLY there is ONE if you (misread) what anyone means.

I think I’ve made all the points that can be made here; I have no need to convince you of anything nor do I need to convince you of anything.

You stubbornly refuse to believe even the dictionary in this case.

Jordan

Anyone who is a good developer and effective at what they do is going to hate scrum.

I see no other interpretation on that statement than:
If you are a developer and good at it, you hate scrum

If you have a different interpretation, please come with it.

With the above statement you’re also implying that:
If you are a developer and like scrum, you’re not a good developer.

This in the same way as I might be interpreted to imply that;if you are a developer and like scrum, you’re not a lazy developer (something which is not an intended meaning and one of the reasons why I included “why lazy developers mightfear and hate agile and scrum” in the youtube description).

There really should be a respected unbiased survey on the correlation of developer performance and fondness of scrum methodology. Untill then I guess we’ll never agree

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/everyone

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anyone

Note also that they do not list the two words as synonyms.

I don’t think you as a Dutch should spend any time lecturing me on correct English.

Look forward to your apology.

Jordan

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/everyone

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anyone

Note also that they do not list the two words as synonyms.

I don’t think you as s Dutch should spend any time lecturing me on correct English.

Look forward to your apology.

Jordan