{"id":6714,"date":"2016-02-20T20:32:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T12:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6714"},"modified":"2016-02-20T20:32:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T12:32:14","slug":"michael-o-church-rants-essays-and-diatribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/20\/michael-o-church-rants-essays-and-diatribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael O. Church \u2013 Why \u201cAgile\u201d and especially Scrum are terrible"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The problem with Agile\u2019s two-week iterations (or \u201csprints\u201d) and user stories is that there is no exit strategy. There\u2019s no \u201cWe won\u2019t have to do this once we achieve [X]\u201d clause. It\u2019s designed to be there forever: the business-driven engineering and status meetings will never go away. Architecture and R&amp;D and product development aren\u2019t part of the programmer\u2019s job, because those things don\u2019t fit into atomized \u201cuser stories\u201d or two-week sprints. As a result, the sorts of projects that programmers want to take on, once they master the basics of the craft, are often ignored, because it\u2019s\u00a0annoying\u00a0to justify them in terms of short-term business value. Technical excellence matters, but it\u2019s painful to try to sell people on this fact if they want, badly, not to be convinced of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelochurch.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/06\/why-agile-and-especially-scrum-are-terrible\/\">Michael O. Church \u2013 Why \u201cAgile\u201d and especially Scrum are terrible<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with Agile\u2019s two-week iterations (or \u201csprints\u201d) and user stories is that there is no exit strategy. There\u2019s no \u201cWe won\u2019t have to do this once we achieve [X]\u201d clause. It\u2019s designed to be there forever: the business-driven engineering and status meetings will never go away. Architecture and R&amp;D and product development aren\u2019t part &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/20\/michael-o-church-rants-essays-and-diatribes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael O. Church \u2013 Why \u201cAgile\u201d and especially Scrum are terrible&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}