Tuesday, November 20, 2007

The Raising SCRUM in XP.Be Days

SCRUM is becoming the most important agile framework for agilists and their market, at least in Belgium. Most effort is spent on the possibile marriage of SCRUM, which is a project management technique, rather than a developing one (for that, XP is ready to go). A couple of guys talked about SCRUMMING, i.e. SCRUM + CMMI, in order to ad an external loop for a long-termed vision.

Even if I liked much the game we played, I found the relation with the talk no clear (as I told them on site) and this glue unfeasible. In fact, the risk is to have two languages, the one for the team (SCRUM) and the other for the management (CMMI).

I feel that the ubiquitous language principle borrowed from DDD is what everybody needs: a unique lexicon for each level of details in software management, design and development strata. This is something worth to be studied more. For example, the Stand-Up Meeting and the Daily SCRUM, as far as I am concerned in, are the same thing, as the Customer and the Product Owner. Or am I wrong?

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