On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Milan Sreckovic <[email protected]>wrote:
> There is nothing magical about scrum that would have stopped us from > getting exactly to where we are today. > It's true that Scrum (or any methodology) isn't a silver bullet, and agile requires a lot of discipline and buy-in, even culture change. It's also true that Scrum doesn't prescribe as much process as other methodologies like Extreme Programming which I've also used. But I disagree that we'd be exactly where we are today if we were already using it. Sure, but that assumes you have a particular approach in mind, and > everybody follows it. Scrum doesn't give you that approach, it needs to > come separately. It'll help with execution and focus and such, but won't > tell you what the right thing to do is. > The basic concepts of a product backlog, sprint backlog, product owner, scrum master and development team that I mention are all core parts of Scrum. Of course there's a lot more that's needed, but just having an ordered product backlog and a focus on having a potentially releasable product at the end of of each timeboxed iteration instead of extremely long release cycles with no checkpoints could lead us to choose a different branching strategy. Anyway, it seems like things are already moving in this direction for 1.2 and I agree with others that it may not now be a good idea to make these changes for 1.1 as we're already a long way along with that and expectations have been set. Onwards and upwards! Ben _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
