{"id":13206,"date":"2015-04-03T03:10:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T03:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/scrum-is-a-popular-agile-process-so-why-not-use\/"},"modified":"2015-04-03T03:10:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T03:10:37","slug":"scrum-is-a-popular-agile-process-so-why-not-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/scrum-is-a-popular-agile-process-so-why-not-use\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Scrum is a popular Agile process, so why not use its terminology?<\/p>\n<p>First, there are plain English words that already mean the same things. \u201cIteration\u201d is a perfectly fine word and is actually closer to the intended meaning than \u201csprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Second, Scrum terminology directly contradicts the stated principles of Agile development. For example:<br \/>\nAgile processes promote sustainable development\u2026[The team] should\u2026maintain a constant pace indefinitely.<br \/>\nContrast this with the term \u201csprint,\u201d which suggests a short burst, an unsustainable pace.<\/p>\n<p>Third, the Scrum terminology creates a negative frame of reference. For example, you can be on the first day of a project and have a \u201cbacklog.\u201d \u201cSprints\u201d and \u201cspikes\u201d suggest a state of permanent and meaningless urgency.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandastrike.com\/posts\/20150304-agile\">Flaws In Scrum And Agile<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/mttb.me\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mb<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scrum is a popular Agile process, so why not use its terminology? First, there are plain English words that already mean the same things. \u201cIteration\u201d is a perfectly fine word and is actually closer to the intended meaning than \u201csprint.\u201d Second, Scrum terminology directly contradicts the stated principles of Agile development. For example: Agile processes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3r0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}