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The Many Alternatives to Scrum – By Adam Ard
Many say, "Scrum is the worst development process—except for all the others." Mysteriously, they seem to believe there are no alternatives.
At Valve, “there is no management and no one reports to anyone else.”( 1) Everyone has wheels on their desks, and employees are encouraged to constantly ask themselves, “Where can I move to be the most useful?” There are no closed doors either—anyone can join any project that interests them. In fact, you could do what we all should have done back in 2001 when the Manifesto was first created: instead of looking for a pre-defined system like Scrum, XP, or Crystal, each team should have sat down and started iterating on a process of their own invention. Let them do irregular sprints that don’t run back-to-back; let them add items to the backlog without the PO’s permission; let them do stand-ups once a week; let them ban estimates.
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