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senkotoday at 9:23 AM1 replyview on HN

Did you know that agile is just waterfall scaled down to two weeks? Now you know!


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FairlySadPandatoday at 9:31 AM

No /s here so just in case this is a serious point:

Agile is a set of four principles for software development.

Scrum is the two-week development window thing, but Scrum doesn't mandate a two week _release_ window, it mandates a two week cadence of planning and progress review with a focus on doing small chunks of achievable work rather than mega-projects.

Scrum prefers lots of one-to-three day projects generally, I've yet to see training on Scrum that does not warn off of repeatedly picking up two-week jobs. If that's been your experience, you should review how you can break work down more to get to "done" on bits of it faster.

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