Here's a hamster. The hamster looks happy, with flush cheeks and eyes filled with joy. You see it in the store and after rubbing its belly you fall in love 😍. The pet shop owner tells you it’s a nocturnal animal. It sleeps during the day. You should feed it once per day, refresh the water regularly and clean the cage once per week. You do all those things, and your hamster will remain one happy camper.
Nice analogy 🙂 An interesting questions would be why we don’t talk about what the hamster needs, in order to thrive, before we sell it, and whether the potential owner is prepared to make investments needed
Nice analogy 🙂 An interesting questions would be why we don’t talk about what the hamster needs, in order to thrive, before we sell it, and whether the potential owner is prepared to make investments needed
Scrum definitely exposes multiple organizational dysfunctions.
Most orgs respond by, as you beautifully illustrate, doing away with the aspects of Scrum that are “inconvenient.”
The basics of success remain the same:
- Small, cross-functional teams with all the skills necessary
- Working off emergent backlogs
- To produce increments of working, tested software every iteration
Great stuff, Maarten!
Maybe we should invent a new pet - we could call it “goldfish” 🥹
Well written Maarten! 👍🏻