Comments on: What’s in a name?

By: danrough

danrough — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:23:46 +0000

I’m not sure that it is just a matter of getting the client involved from the beginning, more that they should be involved throughout, after all, it is their product / project, they’re the ones who understand what they want best.

I think one of the main benefits of an Agile approach is that it promotes a lot more communication, which in my mind, is the main reason that a lot of projects fail. Similarly, perhaps the client wouldn’t be screaming as much if they had been involved up front, at least they would have known that the team weren’t meeting the scope that had been committed too for any given Iteration / Sprint.

By: Ben H

Ben H — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:01:06 +0000

Srum is a nice idea and i use it to a certain degree.

However, it doesn’t really matter when the client is screaming at you and you have 4 days left to finish the project youve still got to stay all night and finish it off.

..and i know the response “the client wouldn’t be like that if they are truly involved from the beginning blah blah”

This is not my experience of the real world.

By: danrough

danrough — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:37:00 +0000

Thanks Wan. I’ve had quite a bit of time to consider this recently and I must confess that now, I would rather we didn’t refer to it as Agile or Scrum but perhaps as some of my colleagues do, that we are just taking a pragmatic approach. In some respects I think that some people might be a little less intimidated by some of the suggestions.

As I say, it’s whatever works for you.

By: Wan

Wan — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:11:36 +0000

Agreed. This has been sometimes been referred to as agile “with a small a”, as opposed to the strict by the book following of the “Church of Agile”