Scrumbut

Sorry for a post that is a quote of a quote, but this is just too good to leave out. Brad Wilson put up a quote from Eric Gunnerson:

"We're doing Scrum but..."

• our sprints are 12 weeks long...
• we do two normal sprints and one bugfix sprint...
• we do all our planning up front...
• we skip the daily meeting...
• our managers decide what's in each sprint...
• we haven't read the books yet...
• our team has 30 people...

I'm not a strict methodologist - a specific methodology may need to be adapted to a specific situation. But most of these are anti-scrum rather than modified-scrum.

Great stuff. Here's another from Brad if you're interested.