<story><title>Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011)</title><url>https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast-subtle-important-change-scrum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jryan49</author><text>I still think it ironic that when looking at the actual Agile manifesto at &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;agilemanifesto.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;agilemanifesto.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; (which is short and uncomplicated), that the first line is &amp;quot;Individuals and interactions over processes and tools&amp;quot; and these days practicing agile, at least in a big-house corporate environment feels like anything but.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jt2190</author><text>The Agile Manifesto suffers from &amp;quot;the curse of knowledge&amp;quot;: The signatories are all very experienced, and deeply understand all of the differences between projects and people and when to be flexible and when to be rigid, and they know that it&amp;#x27;s important to &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; specify a method for &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; situation. But there are many, many people entering the software industry who don&amp;#x27;t have their years of experience, and who need very clear, basic instructions as a starting point, and hence Scrum steps in to fill the gap. What&amp;#x27;s unfortunate is that scrum isn&amp;#x27;t a program for developing software managers from rigid, by-the-book managers into experienced, &lt;i&gt;agile&lt;/i&gt; managers: Instead it encourages newbie practices for everyone, forever.</text></comment>
<story><title>Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011)</title><url>https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast-subtle-important-change-scrum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jryan49</author><text>I still think it ironic that when looking at the actual Agile manifesto at &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;agilemanifesto.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;agilemanifesto.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; (which is short and uncomplicated), that the first line is &amp;quot;Individuals and interactions over processes and tools&amp;quot; and these days practicing agile, at least in a big-house corporate environment feels like anything but.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philbarr</author><text>Absolutely - some people hear, &amp;quot;people before process&amp;quot;, think it sounds great, then immediately go looking for a process to implement it and find Scrum.</text></comment>