Succeeding with Agile

Scrum Is Dramatically Different

Not only do the changes created by adopting Scrum pervade everything development team members do, but also many of the changes go against much of their past training. Many testers, for example, have learned that their job is testing for compliance to a specification. Programmers have been trained that a problem is to be analyzed in depth and a perfect solution designed before any coding begins. On a Scrum project, testers and programmers need to unlearn these behaviors. Testers learn that testing is also about conformance with user needs. Programmers learn that a fully considered design is not always necessary (and sometimes not even desirable) before coding begins. Abby Fichtner, who shares her thoughts on her ...