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Re^6: Selling swimsuits to a drowning man

by mr_mischief (Monsignor)
on Jul 18, 2014 at 16:56 UTC ( [id://1094234]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^5: Selling swimsuits to a drowning man
in thread Selling swimsuits to a drowning man

Well, yes, there are certainly risks and caveats. Scrum is not perfect, but it was developed to address the problems created in another situation that was even less perfect.

I'm not trying to highjack your thread about there being no magic bullets by trying to push a particular magic bullet. Scrum isn't that. It isn't a magic bullet, and people who say it is are deceiving people.

My point is to not dump out the baby with the bathwater. There is some merit to some of these things. The CCIE is a very difficult and meaningful certification. Scrum is IME a (not the) useful way to adjust to rapidly changing business priorities. Object oriented programming is really useful to model some projects. Databases are really very good for some things, while a light flat-file system is better for others.

Just because we're tired of overblown sales pitches doesn't mean we should reject summarily everything being pitched. Be wary. Be jaded. In the end, though, weigh some merits and make informed decisions.

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Re^7: Selling swimsuits to a drowning man
by sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Jul 23, 2014 at 00:21 UTC

    ... and, as we have discussed offline amongst ourselves ... I agree completely with all of the points that you have raised here.

    Uh huh ... there are “people saying it,” and, yeah, they are “deceiving people.”   However, all the rest of us have been plying this most-peculiar trade, now, for a very (bah! never-mind!) long time, and reckon we have work to do. . .

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