Another entry on the effect of jumping to Scrum and ignoring the engineering practices

This time it is Martin Fowler

There’s a mess I’ve heard about with quite a few projects recently. It works out like this:

• They want to use an agile process, and pick Scrum
• They adopt the Scrum practices, and maybe even the principles
• After a while progress is slow because the code base is a mess

Read on… via Arjan’s World

James Shore had written a piece earlier on the same topic.

And my thoughts on the same

Talking about ‘The Decline and Fall of Agile’

Agile & Engineering Practices