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There are agile processes other than Scrum. Scrum has gotten all the press for some reason, but there are other options.

I personally prefer Kanban. The sprint is not a useful deadline for me so I want to ignore it.




Agreed. But Kanban also often incorporates some of the processes from Scrum like daily standups that aren't prescribed anywhere in Agile.

Personally I find it more useful to organize things around useful product milestones that are actually usable and demo-able. Those might take a week, or three weeks, but probably not two months because that's a long time to go without a demo and getting feedback. Sticking to a rigid 2-week sprint with an expectation of demo-able progress after each sprint doesn't feel particularly realistic or useful to me.


Agile is not against processes when needed. Agile is against too much process.


And yet, the most process-heavy places I've ever worked at have been "agile" shops.




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