Back in 2005, I remember working on startups running on Scrum principles. It worked well at the time, we where able to ship, grow the team, and move forward with a nice few-features-per-week cadence, working remotely, on a small team; less than 10. Tt always worked fine, but very centralized and slow, as all-things-dev were at the time.
I worked with ActiveColab in 2007, Skype 2007, Yammer 2009, Trello 2011, Pivotal Tracker 2013, Trello 2016, Confluence 2022, Slack 2013, Google Meet, and sometimes I think, scrum became _less-relevant_ over the years as more advanced product management tools became the norm and the product manager role matured by leveraging them.
These days, it's not rare to see lead developers manage kanban-like boards very effectively, releasing on time, with grace, without the need of a scrum master to coordinate efforts.
I do like asynchronous scrum daily standups using http://geekbot.com on slack, when on-site or/and distributed and doing sprints. I seen this work well on startups going from pre-seed to series B.
Personally, I am fascinated with team dynamics and how they've changed over the years. We are definitely living the best of times as a developer and I still see sparkles of well-applied scrum every now and then that works nicely.
For me, one of the coolest thing about the Robocop movie series is that, each Robocop movie is about the next Robocop. Robocop 1 is about Murphy being the first Robocop, Robocop 2 is about Cain becoming the second Robocop, and Robocop 3 is about the asian looking Robocops -- the third generation.
I worked with ActiveColab in 2007, Skype 2007, Yammer 2009, Trello 2011, Pivotal Tracker 2013, Trello 2016, Confluence 2022, Slack 2013, Google Meet, and sometimes I think, scrum became _less-relevant_ over the years as more advanced product management tools became the norm and the product manager role matured by leveraging them.
These days, it's not rare to see lead developers manage kanban-like boards very effectively, releasing on time, with grace, without the need of a scrum master to coordinate efforts.
I do like asynchronous scrum daily standups using http://geekbot.com on slack, when on-site or/and distributed and doing sprints. I seen this work well on startups going from pre-seed to series B.
Personally, I am fascinated with team dynamics and how they've changed over the years. We are definitely living the best of times as a developer and I still see sparkles of well-applied scrum every now and then that works nicely.