Teaching.com · kids education software maker
Drop Scrum and let developers change or kill features late in the build
Scrum turned engineers into ticket-takers; dropped for late-change freedom
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What they did
Tried Scrum early in scaling engineering (product owner training, a Scrum master). It turned creative engineers into ticket takers, so it was dropped. Now developers can challenge designs while building; 11th-hour changes are encouraged and months of work are not shipped if not right. Hire 'product developers' over pure software engineers.
What happened
Scrum failed; the replacement process is credited for good products but frustrates some people.
In their words
Sub Club by RevenueCat · What Reading.com Learned Testing Prices and Funnels — Tim Dikun, Teaching.com“We actually tried when we were first starting out, first starting to scale our engineering org, we sent our people to product owner training, and hired a Scrum master, and all that stuff.”
“And then we're not afraid, at that point, like we we encourage 11th hour changes, right?”
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