Succeeding with Agile

Can Scrum and Sequential Coexist Forever?

Opinions are split on whether Scrum and sequential development approaches can coexist forever. Certainly there are organizations doing this today, and organizations have successfully supported multiple, non-agile development processes in the past. But is there something fundamentally different about Scrum that would prevent it from coexisting forever with a sequential process? Michele Sliger believes there is.

I used to say that companies could mix agile and traditional approaches indefinitely, as they might not wish to move every project to an agile environment. But after what I’ve seen in the past year, I no longer believe that to be true. I think that companies must eventually make a choice to go ...