Process on Software Engineering Thoughts

The Confusion Between Scrum and Agile

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:44:19 +0100

More and more I am reading about, and experiencing, organisations who have adopted “Scrum” as their process, but are complaining that they aren’t achieving any of the benefits that they expected from “going agile”. This often manifests itself in broad claims that agile is a failure as a methodology.

I’ve come to believe that there is a fundamental misunderstanding around what agile actually is, how it is supposed to help, and in particular how it relates to Scrum. In this post I want to try to address this confusion.

Continuous Collaboration

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:22:10 +0100

The age of teams collaborating by huddling around a whiteboard in a meeting room inside some corporate office is dead. The future of teams is continuous collaboration. In this post I will explore what this is, how it works, and why meeting rooms and whiteboards should be consigned to the scrapheap of failed team collaboration approaches.

(Note: this is not to say that there isn’t sometimes value in meeting rooms and whiteboards for knowledge dissemination and other group activities, just not collaboration.)