(2022-02-01) Jeffries Scrum Bastard

Ron Jeffries: Scrum Bastard (play on Scrum Master). Someone posted a screed on Scrum.org’s forum.

I replied in line: This is the most outrageous public intentional example of Dark Scrum that I have ever seen

The replies on the forum are all pretty mature

I am advised by a Tweep that the SM in question is new

What we see here, experienced or not, is a near perfect example of Scrum / Agile going wrong. I am near livid at the use of the term “insubordination” in any situation, but in a would-be Scrum / Agile situation it is so wrong as to be perilously close to evil.

It’s ideas like the topic idea here, which is a really stellar example, that lead me to do what I do in recent days and years.

It comes down to this, at least for me: writing valuable software well is fun. It is joyful. It usually also pays well, but the real payoff is in the joy of exercising one’s growing skills together with a team of other people finding the same joy in their joint enterprise. ((2022-01-24) Jeffries Strawberries8 Joy)