Scrum Sucks

While some of the points in this post are valid most of this is just copy-paste non-sense stated in multiple articles. Of course "Scrum" cannot fix your problems if you have bad engineers who are happy to just "close" tickets or you have an organization where you do not know where to ask "who is knowledable about this business requirement". Scrum is a software delivery methodology which is ok in itself, it is not a silver bullet which will enable you to write great software which meets specification and runs for years without bugs, those things are completely tangential and require a specific set of skills.

I believe that the most valuable aspect of Scrum is the retrospectives. These are recurring meetings where we assess what has been effective and what hasn’t. If the retrospectives consistently focus on the same issues, such as ongoing complaints about test environments, this also indicates a fundamental flaw in the overall architecture.

Bullshit clickbait is bullshit clickbait.

Scrum doesn't inherently suck. Scrum can work if you do it right. It won't if you don't.

Just leaving it up to the individual team leads to the same result. If the team sucks at managing their work, the team will suck at managing their work. It doesn't matter what you follow if you suck at it.

This isn't as catchy and feel-good as the bullshit clickbait that reinforces what you want to believe (that the process is the problem, not you or your team). But it's accurate.

The things I've taken from scrum and use at every team:

- plan in 2 week chunks

- estimate in points (relative size to something you've already done), emphasis on consistent estimates for each dev.

- make sure you define what 'done' means, and make sure it relates to what exactly you are trying to measure (Eg just coding effort, work till feature can ship?, etc). This is probably the most tricky bit.

- capture total velocity every 2 weeks and eventually use the avg for future planning

- review the entire process and modify things that take a lot of time for devs.

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