<story><title>The age of Scrum is over</title><url>https://chrisjameslennon.medium.com/the-age-of-scrum-is-over-185407ad705b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpswade</author><text>The most important part of scrum and the only part that is important is retrospectives, because it allows the team opportunity to step back and make changes to their processes. Everything else is mostly arbitrary. Want to stop doing stand ups or change how you manage work? Go for it, nobody is stopping you. Do what works for you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>probotect0r</author><text>In my experience, most retro meetings I have been in start with the scrum master asking things like &amp;quot;what did we do well this sprint?&amp;quot;, followed by complete silence from the team until someone points out a non-point like &amp;quot;we collaborated well...&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;One team I worked on decided to not pre-schedule retro meetings. Instead we had a &amp;#x27;retro board&amp;#x27;, which was just a section of a white board where team members would write down specific things that they think would be worth discussing in a future retro meeting. The team would decide to hold a retro meeting once the board had accumulated a few things to talk about. We found this approach was super effective because we knew what we needed to discuss when we held the meeting, instead of waiting for team members to recall something to talk about.</text></comment>
<story><title>The age of Scrum is over</title><url>https://chrisjameslennon.medium.com/the-age-of-scrum-is-over-185407ad705b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpswade</author><text>The most important part of scrum and the only part that is important is retrospectives, because it allows the team opportunity to step back and make changes to their processes. Everything else is mostly arbitrary. Want to stop doing stand ups or change how you manage work? Go for it, nobody is stopping you. Do what works for you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corrral</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s how it works in well-functioning agile teams, but in &amp;quot;Agile&amp;quot; teams the team can&amp;#x27;t decide on their own to e.g. totally ditch standups. Management won&amp;#x27;t allow it, or they&amp;#x27;ve set up the project manager to be God of Agile and they get last say on that kind of thing, and so on.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Agile&amp;quot; teams outnumber agile teams by a large margin.</text></comment>