Tag Archives: scrum

Is Agile Gestalt?

Ken argues that Agile (big A or lit­tle, your choice) is Gestalt. From this con­clu­sion, he says that it’s a mis­take to dog­mat­i­cally fol­low a given process or pro­scribe par­tic­u­lar tools when we’re try­ing to imple­ment Agile and that instead, we should “…help remove orga­ni­za­tional and soci­o­log­i­cal blocks that pre­vent teams from employ­ing them.” While

An Alternate Take On Scrum

An inter­est­ing read. It sounds like he’s def­i­nitely on a team where “Scrum” actu­ally means “Daily Sta­tus Meet­ing” and if so, then I totally sym­pa­thize. Lots of scrum meet­ings I’ve been involved with turn into glo­ri­fied sta­tus meet­ings and they suck. No one wants to stand up in front of your peers and say “yes­ter­day,