What’s the right process and what’s the right amount of it? No process is chaos. Too much of it is sclerosis.
Process is good, as long as you own it and it’s not the other way around.
The process is not the thing. It’s always worth asking, do we own the process or does the process own us?”
—Jeff Bezos, 2016 Letter to Shareholders
But taking ownership of your process is hard. You have to work for it, until you have a process that works for you.
Sure, use Scrum! For starters, you might as well go with something tried and tested. Just don’t stop there. Keep going and do what makes sense to you.
Detach your thinking from any particular named ‘agile’ method.”
—Ron Jeffries, Developers Should Abandon Agile
The other day, I dusted off old index cards. Further down, they introduce a homegrown framework. Feature Driven Delivery, circa 2007.
Take it for what it is: yet another framework, but one that worked. And so should yours, if you own it.
