“Sprints”: The biggest mistake of Software Engineering
<p>Yes, let’s talk a little about being agile and the Brazilian definition of the current state agile generated called “eXtreme Go Horse” methodology.</p>
<h1>The misconceptions</h1>
<p>The first thing is to get the common misconceptions out of the way.</p>
<h1>Agile is going fast</h1>
<p>By now, we all (should) know that agile is not about being faster. It’s about delivering value sooner and in a constant manner and being able to react and change course earlier.</p>
<h1>Sprint is doing all in the time slot</h1>
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<p><em>So… you’re saying agile is not about being fast, but that it also means having… sprints?</em></p>
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<p>It might have been an unfortunate term used by the developers of Scrum, but it certainly doesn’t help with all the “agile is being fast” people like to think.</p>
<p>Sprints, however, are just a time box for a certain amount of work to be done.</p>
<h1>The problem</h1>
<p>Executives push for agile and scrum because they think about being fast, sprints!</p>
<p>But the biggest problem is that making software is not a sprint, it’s a marathon.</p>
<p>And unless you’re not human, you know that you can’t sprint a marathon. It’s a <em>really</em> bad idea.</p>
<p>Hell! Most people can’t even sprint a short race. And I’m also talking about software.</p>
<h1>The people result</h1>
<p>Burnout. Plain and simple, the profession loses a lot of good people because of burnout.</p>
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