I hope people read this person's full post. he says, "I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile."
Yeah, agile and scrum aren't the same. In my humble opinion, agile process is pretty fantastic and a lot better than waterfall (although waterfall has some elements that should be carried over to agile) or even Rational Unified Process. Yeah, Agile is taking over the engineering world (not just software) for a reason, because iterative development using small teams works.
Read through the principles and then find out how it maps to scrum.
Scrum is not the same as "Agile", but it tries to provide a simple methodology to implement parts of it.
> continuous delivery of valuable software
> Deliver working software frequently, from a
couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a
preference to the shorter timescale.
That's a sprint in Scrum.
> The most efficient and effective method of
conveying information to and within a development
team is face-to-face conversation.
A stand-up is one way to do it. Standing and talking face to face may seem foreign to people used to sit all day in front of computer screens, but I think it's worth trying... ;-)
Yeah, agile and scrum aren't the same. In my humble opinion, agile process is pretty fantastic and a lot better than waterfall (although waterfall has some elements that should be carried over to agile) or even Rational Unified Process. Yeah, Agile is taking over the engineering world (not just software) for a reason, because iterative development using small teams works.