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                Just adding a bit more fuel to the dumpster fire
                                        
> The idea of the scrum framework is to organize a development process to
> move through the different project cycles faster. But does it always
> incentivize the right behaviours doing so? Many of the users who joined the
> debate around the question on Stack Overflow have similar stories of how
> developers take shortcuts, get distracted by their ticket high score, or
> even feign productivity for managers. How can one avoid these pitfalls?
> 
> That the question has been migrated from our workplace exchange to the
> software engineering one shows that developers consider concerns about
> scrum and its effectiveness larger than the standard software development
> lifecycle; they feel its effect on their workplace as a whole. User Qiulang
> makes a bold claim in their question: Scrum is turning good developers into
> average ones. 
> 
> Could that be true?
> 

Via Comment at Hacker News [1], “Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you
doing it wrong? - Stack Overflow Blog [2]”

Despite Betterid ge's Law of headlines [3] I'm inclined to answer “yes.”
Especially since it appears to me to involve processes and tools over
individuals and interactions [4] … 

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27461280
[2] https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/06/29/does-scrum-ruin-great-engineers-
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
[4] http://agilemanifesto.org/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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