Back in the heady days of 2010, I was a newly minted scrum master, fresh off my training seminar. I was excited by scrum’s potential, but I also took care to maintain some agnosticism. I always told people that scrum was the best production framework I’d seen, but that I would happily kick it to the curb as soon as I found something better. With several more years of experience under my belt, I’ve come to the conclusion that there are, in fact, better ways of managing development. And with that understanding came the further realization that I want to leave scrum behind. By Reading This Post, You Will Learn: Why the sprint cadence is problematic from an operations standpoint A better approach to measuring productivity Why the intuition underlying sprints is flawed Bruce Lee and the Fancy Mess of Martial Arts When he developed his own martial art system, Jeet Kune Do*, … Continue reading The Flawed Logic of Sprints: The Fancy Mess of Scrum, Part 1