Skeptics
Thad had no choice but to adopt Scrum. His company had been acquired and was being told by the new owners to begin using Scrum immediately. This wasn’t a direction Thad would have chosen himself, and he had serious concerns about it. Would the daily scrums add value, especially with a product owner who worked from her home 600 miles away? How could a new product as complicated, large, and novel as theirs be done without a lengthy up-front design phase? He could see the value of iterating through the construction phase, but surely an up-front design was still needed.
Thad was a skeptic. I knew this from his willingness to admit that Scrum was fine for other domains, technologies, or environments—just not his. Thad openly acknowledged ...
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