Comments on: Scrumbut = Double Fudge Sunday and ScrumMaster = Personal Trainer

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All You Need To Know About Software Development Methodologies! — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:59:17 +0000

[…] I’m not going to cover all of them—and to be honest with you, most teams that claim to be following one of these methodologies aren’t really following them. […]

By: Nomme

Nomme — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:52:00 +0000

Initially I thought this was a lame comparison but I’m glad I stuck it through and read the whole thing. Entertaining. Sadly I work for a fed. gov’t. “non-profit” contractor that has scrum masters/managers (if you want to call ’em that) that are better at telling jokes and trying to make the BAs or “customers” laugh and keep things “good natured” than improving or enforcing our software development practices. They don’t have the cojones to say No. In that regard, our “trainers” are more of the type 1 described above. Here (elle am eye) he who controls the coin purse controls. Period.

By: Dave Rooney

Dave Rooney — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:26:36 +0000

Interesting… I like this idea! After all, in both fitness and software product delivery we’re dealing a lot with human nature.

I’d suggest though, that the non-technical practices Scrum alone is the equivalent of just going on a diet. It will provide benefits – reduced weight, some increased energy – but the rate of failure, i.e. falling off the diet and back to old habits, is relatively high. That’s why there are so many fad diets around.

The “personal trainer” aspect is more like a team that has also committed to improving their technical practices, including full automated testing, continuous integration, pair programming, etc. They’re on a diet AND they’re working on full lifestyle changes including exercise.

Dave Rooney
The Agile Consortium