the thing is and point of the post is that you need some sort of Project management.. otherwise it’s bound to fail! The concept or framework of scrum suits us @ Cauwill – so we use it. In fact we were kinda always doing it – but didn’t know it was called SCRUM!

R

Interesting the way they call it a “scrumban”, looks like you’re also leaning (pun intended) towards kanban! ;o)

The biggest danger I see with people getting excited about Scrum/Lean/Agile etc is that the core concept can be forgotten in an effort to follow a process or desire to be “Agile”.

The key to good project management is change management and the willingness to tailor these guides to fit your own style and ways of working – once you start enforcing Scrum practices you end up with a process and a static process brings with it all the failings of every other software engineering methodology out there.

There’s a nice saying from the Lean community which captures the most important thing about your poject… *success*

In Kanban/Lean we focus on being successful and thus hopefully get to be agile. In Scrum/Agile we focus on being agile and thus hopefully get to be successful.