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When I buried the Scrum
It’s an article about how my team left Scrum and worked out our own Agile methodology.
This article is a part of my Scrum series, see with free links (including to this article):
I like Scrum. The good Scrum.
The story
I worked on a project, which had more teams. There was a core team only with senior team members, working together for years. They had already worked in the Agile way, without knowing anything about Scum, but they didn’t need it. See more details about this team at my article Scrum is the first step into the Agile world (as an exception).
I worked in another team of the project. The team never had a Scrum Master, so a team member had to play this role. It was not an ideal situation, see my article Drawbacks of Scrum-like methodologies. When the team member, who played the Scrum Master role, resigned this role, I took on the Scrum Master role, because nobody else wanted to take on it.
I was in a difficult situation, because other team members didn’t have experience with the whole Scum, just with Scrum-like methodologies. Only the Scrum rules, which looked comprehensible, were kept, so they didn’t have experience with a good Scrum. The team members felt the Scrum rules, the planning and whole ticket administration were unnecessary. The managers didn’t check…
