Ken Furlong

Jack Milunsky has a brief post up over at AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com wherein he discusses the issue of switching stories mid sprint.  One of his points that I’d like to draw attention to is his response to the criticism that a team can be the slave of the process, i.e, too rigid in following Scrum mechanics and not willing to change a sprint mid stride because something urgent comes up.  As he says “Well you’re either a slave to the process or the team is a slave to any chicken in the company who shouts the loudest.”

That is a fantastic point, in my opinion.  It is much like the oft repeated response when something goes wrong while you’re doing scrum: “would this have been any different if we were doing waterfall?”

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