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If people decomposed agile into little bits they probably wouldn't be doing agile anymore. The other day somebody posted a question about "how do I push back about management going to one week sprints?" My answer, which I didn't post then, was "if management really wants to go fast give up on sprints"

That is, Kanban + Continuous Integration >> Scrum by a lot. Seen from that viewpoint sprints are not something that speeds anything up (seductive name there!) but rather a bunch of phony deadlines and needless meanings (you really think people feel psychologically safe in a retrospective meeting that was scheduled just to have a meeting? is there really something worth talking about in an every two week one-on-one in your manager which isn't important enough to knock on their door and ask about right now?)

If I was evaluating a manager I'd probably get them to give me a list of practices that they say their team is following and then check to for conformance against that. I am less bothered with do they do code reviews or not but rather "did they tell me that they enforce five conventions in the code and looking at the code I find they rarely do... Lets sit in on a code review"






It always struct me as ironic that something that takes one or two weeks is called "sprinting".

In competitive athletics you will not sprint more than 400m, because sprint is anaerobic.

The fastest 400m ever run was 43.03 seconds.




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