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What does SCRUM stand for?
Apr 27, 2009
Dear Agilista,
What does SCRUM stand for?
- Doesn’t Understand Heuristics
Dear DUH,
SCRUM is not an acronym. Its proper spelling is Scrum (not all caps). It’s a rugby term used when members of the rugby teams form a circle to get the ball back into play. Think of Scrum as a way to get software delivery teams unstuck and moving again.
However, a student forced by his company to attend a Scrum training course I once taught disagreed with me. He insisted that Scrum stood for “Stupid Crap Required by Upper Management.” Ah well, can’t win ‘em all.
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Matthew Sacks said:
Jun 12, 2010 at 8:50 pm
The second one is definitely convincing.
I think daily Scrums are absolutely useless. It might belong in kindergarten, and maybe first grade elementary school, but not for a serious software development project. It is a huge time waste and often times, a day has been spent in meetings, thus there is nothing new to provide an update the following day, and your workflow is being interrupted yet again, instead of getting actual work done.