Scrum Wanted! » fault-tolerance http://www.scrumwanted.com A weblog for Scrum enthusiasts Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:03:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 “Oh, we just call it Scrum!” http://www.scrumwanted.com/2009/12/oh-we-just-call-it-scrum/ http://www.scrumwanted.com/2009/12/oh-we-just-call-it-scrum/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:24:29 +0000 admin http://www.scrumwanted.com/?p=209 There is an interesting discussion going on in the Scrum discussion group on XING: The question is why organizations call projects Scrum projects although they seem to have no intention to use Scrum at all. Some people in the discussion suspect this a trend to make projects sound modern and appealing. I absolutely agree and think this is clear evidence of growing Scrum ignorance.

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Photo by Flickr user "johnscotthaydon" http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnhaydon/3252135212/

“Scrum does not work and I won’t even give it a try!”
— anonymous ignorant

This collection of all the ignorant statements I have come across since I have been using Scrum should help you reply to similar statements in case you will ever be confronted with them:

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