The Scrum Sucks Blog
...a place to freely bitch and complain about how much Scrum Sucks!


Top Ten Ways to Survive a Scrumming Organization

June 14th, 2008

10. Leave an unfinished task for yourself to pick up for next sprint if you don’t want to get assigned one you don’t want
9. Cause meeting conflicts to happen with Scrum meetings so that you can miss the Scrum ones with a good reason
8. Always, always over estimate for anything you are asked which helps your velocity look great at the end
7. Don’t volunteer too much information, it just causes more work for you and everyone else
6. Work on Open Source, it will make you feel better
5. Pickup every Training opportunity or Conference trip to get away from the Daily Scrum Meetings
4. Find a way to add tasks to the PBL to justify adding team members
3. Write a Perl script on a Cron job to update your Sprint task hours daily
2. Have a backup plan for when your Organization collapses from Scrum
1. Start a blog


Top Ten Words of Advice to a Manager, Director, or Vice President Deploying Scrum

June 14th, 2008

10. Your team will not care if Scrum fails for you
9. Your team will hate you but never tell you that
8. Scrum may appear to succeed but your team will leave before they tell you how bad it is
7. You will have difficulty retaining talented team members
6. Your team will become demoralized
5. You will have difficulty attracting talented team members
4. Your team will become demotivated
3. Your team will loose all imagination
2. Your team will feel like they are in Communist Russia
1. You will not understand why your team is no more productive



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